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Gaspare Spontini

1774 - 1851

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Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 1774 – 24 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and composed over twenty works. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaspare Spontini is the 246th most popular composer (down from 226th in 2019), the 1,098th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,059th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Italian Composer.

Gaspare Spontini was a composer of operas. He is most famous for his operas "La Vestale" and "Agnese di Fitz-Henry."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gaspare Spontini ranks 246 out of 1,451. Before him are Marcel Dupré, Giacomo Carissimi, Otto Nicolai, Pietro Locatelli, Alessandro Marcello, and Jacques Arcadelt. After him are Jerry Goldsmith, Carl Friedrich Abel, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Maurizio Pollini, Ambroise Thomas, and Cécile Chaminade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Gaspare Spontini ranks 8. Before him are Daniel D. Tompkins, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Auguste de Marmont, Francis Beaufort, and Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti. After him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, William Henry, and Christian Leopold von Buch. Among people deceased in 1851, Gaspare Spontini ranks 13. Before him are Jean-de-Dieu Soult, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Princess Augusta of Bavaria. After him are Manuel Godoy, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John James Audubon, Mikhail Lazarev, Rama III, and Albert Lortzing.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gaspare Spontini ranks 1,098 out of 5,161. Before him are Scipione del Ferro (1465), Italo Svevo (1861), Luigi Einaudi (1874), Bernardino Luini (1475), Marcomer (400), and Vito Volterra (1860). After him are Bettino Craxi (1934), Antipope Ursicinus (400), Pompeius Strabo (-135), Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (1918), Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), and Antipope Boniface VII (1000).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Gaspare Spontini ranks 52. Before him are Francesca Caccini (1587), Andrea Gabrieli (1533), Benedetto Marcello (1686), Giacomo Carissimi (1605), Pietro Locatelli (1695), and Alessandro Marcello (1673). After him are Maurizio Pollini (1942), Antonio Caldara (1670), Francesco Landini (1325), Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700), Andrea Luchesi (1741), and Saverio Mercadante (1795).

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