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Francesco Maria Veracini

1690 - 1768

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Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas. As a composer, according to Manfred Bukofzer, "His individual, if not subjective, style has no precedent in baroque music and clearly heralds the end of the entire era", while Luigi Torchi maintained that "he rescued the imperiled music of the eighteenth century", His contemporary, Charles Burney, held that "he had certainly a great share of whim and caprice, but he built his freaks on a good foundation, being an excellent contrapuntist". The asteroid 10875 Veracini was named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Maria Veracini is the 522nd most popular composer (down from 519th in 2019), the 1,951st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,952nd in 2019) and the 95th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 522 out of 1,451. Before him are Reinhard Keiser, Jean Absil, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Franck Pourcel, Maddalena Casulana, and Léon Boëllmann. After him are Albéric Magnard, Friedrich Wieck, Bernhard Crusell, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Orlando Gibbons, and David Rose.

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Among people born in 1690, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 7. Before him are Christian Goldbach, Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Leonardo Vinci, Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Ernst Johann von Biron. After him are Nicolas Lancret, Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, Peter Tordenskjold, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Patrona Halil, and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Among people deceased in 1768, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 10. Before him are Nicola Porpora, Laurence Sterne, Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and Hermann Samuel Reimarus. After him are Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, François de Cuvilliés, Michel Blavet, Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, and Robert Simson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 1,951 out of 5,161. Before him are Lancelotto Malocello (1270), Vincenzo Coronelli (1650), Alessandro Magnasco (1667), Giuseppe De Santis (1917), Maddalena Casulana (1544), and Luigi Illica (1857). After him are Angelo Bagnasco (1943), Emilio Colombo (1920), Cecilia Bartoli (1966), John II, Marquis of Montferrat (1321), Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853), and Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (1947).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Francesco Maria Veracini ranks 95. Before him are Giuseppe Sarti (1729), Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882), Riz Ortolani (1926), Ferdinando Paer (1771), Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550), and Maddalena Casulana (1544). After him are Remo Giazotto (1910), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895), Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580), Giacinto Scelsi (1905), Luigi Rossi (1597), and Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663).

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