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Francesco Provenzale

1632 - 1704

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Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the teacher of famed castrato 'il cavaliere Nicolo Grimaldi (detto Nicolini)'. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Provenzale is the 966th most popular composer (down from 649th in 2019), the 3,124th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,345th in 2019) and the 147th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Francesco Provenzale ranks 966 out of 1,451. Before him are Juventino Rosas, Charles Burney, Luis de Pablo, John Rutter, Tigran Mansurian, and Tyagaraja. After him are Salomon Jadassohn, Juhan Aavik, Ernst Toch, Ignaz Holzbauer, Tigran Chukhajian, and Camargo Guarnieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1632, Francesco Provenzale ranks 19. Before him are Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Giovanni Battista Vitali, Rahman Baba, Feodosia Morozova, Phetracha, and Louis Bourdaloue. After him is Tylman van Gameren. Among people deceased in 1704, Francesco Provenzale ranks 17. Before him are Isabella Leonarda, Selim I Giray, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Louis Bourdaloue, and Menno van Coehoorn. After him are Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Agnes Block, Lorenzo Gafà, John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, and Louis Hennepin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Provenzale ranks 3,125 out of 5,161. Before him are Teresa de Lauretis (1938), Orio Mastropiero (1150), Antonio Beccadelli (1394), Lorenzo Celsi (1310), Giovanni Brunero (1895), and Gabriele Oriali (1952). After him are Domenico Tintoretto (1560), Pino Donaggio (1941), Vittorio Ambrosio (1879), Marcus Plautius Silvanus (null), Clyde Geronimi (1901), and Francesco Loredan (1685).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Francesco Provenzale ranks 147. Before him are Nicola Fago (1677), Antonio Bertali (1605), Francesco Manfredini (1684), Giovanni Animuccia (1520), Giovanni Battista Bassani (1650), and Franco Donatoni (1927). After him are Valentino Fioravanti (1764), Carlo Rustichelli (1916), Alessandro Rolla (1757), Nicola Piovani (1946), Attilio Ariosti (1666), and Francesco Araja (1709).

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