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Francesco Araja

1709 - 1770

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Francesco Domenico Araja (or Araia, Russian: Арайя) (June 25, 1709 in Naples, Kingdom of Sicily – between 1762 and 1770 in Bologna, States of the Church) was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imperial Court including Tsefal i Prokris, the first opera in Russian. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Araja is the 1,010th most popular composer (down from 947th in 2019), the 3,222nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,055th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Francesco Araja ranks 1,010 out of 1,451. Before him are Trevor Jones, Vasily Safonov, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Artur Kapp, Jón Leifs, and Hermann Goetz. After him are Vagn Holmboe, Erkki Aaltonen, Mikael Tariverdiev, Knut Nystedt, Jean Mouton, and Jāzeps Vītols.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Francesco Araja ranks 22. Before him are Étienne de Silhouette, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Alexei Razumovsky, John Cleland, and Antonio Rinaldi. After him are Molla Vali Vidadi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, and Charles Avison. Among people deceased in 1770, Francesco Araja ranks 16. Before him are Jean-Antoine Nollet, George Whitefield, James Stirling, Martin van Meytens, Carl Gustaf Tessin, and Georg Dionysius Ehret. After him are Charles Avison, Christopher Middleton, Mark Akenside, and Crispus Attucks.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Araja ranks 3,223 out of 5,161. Before him are Ugo Pignotti (1908), Lorenzo Antonetti (1922), Dino Meneghin (1950), Alberto Braglia (1883), Mario Perazzolo (1911), and Andrea Riccardi (1950). After him are Francesco Erizzo (1566), Tommaso Ceva (1648), Francesco Contarini (1566), Claudio Marchisio (1986), Mario Cipollini (1967), and Ugo Betti (1892).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Francesco Araja ranks 153. Before him are Francesco Provenzale (1632), Valentino Fioravanti (1764), Carlo Rustichelli (1916), Alessandro Rolla (1757), Nicola Piovani (1946), and Attilio Ariosti (1666). After him are Alberto Franchetti (1860), Alessandro Grandi (1586), Marco da Gagliano (1582), Michele Carafa (1787), Sylvano Bussotti (1931), and Alessandro Striggio (1540).

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