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Giacomo Puccini

1858 - 1924

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Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents. His most renowned works are La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and the unfinished Turandot (posthumously completed by Franco Alfano), all of which are among the most frequently performed and recorded in the entirety of the operatic repertoire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giacomo Puccini is the 15th most popular composer (up from 16th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Italy (down from 34th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Composer.

Giacomo Puccini is most famous for composing operas, such as "La Boheme" and "Tosca."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giacomo Puccini ranks 15 out of 1,451. Before him are Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler, and Johannes Brahms. After him are Antonín Dvořák, Johann Strauss II, Robert Schumann, Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, and Edvard Grieg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Giacomo Puccini ranks 1. After him are Max Planck, Émile Durkheim, Selma Lagerlöf, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf Diesel, Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, Christiaan Eijkman, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Omar Mukhtar. Among people deceased in 1924, Giacomo Puccini ranks 3. Before him are Vladimir Lenin, and Franz Kafka. After him are Anatole France, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Sullivan, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Fauré, Alfred Marshall, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giacomo Puccini ranks 44 out of 5,161. Before him are Geta (189), Caligula (12), Pope Pius X (1835), Pope Clement I (40), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), and Pope Benedict XV (1854). After him are Alessandro Volta (1745), Brutus the Younger (-85), Ötzi (-3345), Pope Urban VII (1521), Giotto (1267), and Pope Clement VII (1478).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giacomo Puccini ranks 3. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), and Giuseppe Verdi (1813). After him are Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Ennio Morricone (1928), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Antonio Salieri (1750), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), and Guido of Arezzo (991).

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