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Gaetano Donizetti

1797 - 1848

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Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian Romantic composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaetano Donizetti is the 43rd most popular composer (up from 46th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Italy (up from 194th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Composer.

Gaetano Donizetti was an Italian composer who is most famous for his operas.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 43 out of 1,451. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, Camille Saint-Saëns, Johann Strauss I, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Antonio Salieri. After him are Jean-Baptiste Lully, Orlande de Lassus, Tomaso Albinoni, Modest Mussorgsky, Anton Bruckner, and Guido of Arezzo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 4. Before him are Franz Schubert, William I, German Emperor, and Heinrich Heine. After him are Mary Shelley, Adolphe Thiers, Hiroshige, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Paul Delaroche, and Charles Lyell. Among people deceased in 1848, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 1. After him are Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Emily Brontë, Christian VIII of Denmark, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, John Quincy Adams, Caroline Herschel, Bernard Bolzano, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Vissarion Belinsky, and María Isabella of Spain.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 185 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Gregory VIII (1100), Pope Innocent VII (1339), Luigi Galvani (1737), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (-89), Antonio Salieri (1750), and Pope Urban III (1200). After him are Marcello Mastroianni (1924), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Andrea Palladio (1508), Fra Angelico (1400), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), and Marcus Licinius Crassus (-115).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Gaetano Donizetti ranks 9. Before him are Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Ennio Morricone (1928), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), and Antonio Salieri (1750). After him are Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Guido of Arezzo (991), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660).

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