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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger

1580 - 1651

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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (also: Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger; c. 1580 – Rome 17 January 1651) was an Austrian-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. A prolific and highly original composer, Kapsberger is chiefly remembered today for his lute and theorbo (chitarrone) music, which was seminal in the development of these as solo instruments. His nickname was "the German of the theorbo", deriving from his fame as a virtuoso of the theorbo and of the other instruments belonging to the lute family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger is the 547th most popular composer (up from 797th in 2019), the 2,009th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,720th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 547 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Adam Hiller, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Hans Swarowsky, Philippe Herreweghe, John Adams, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. After him are Arno Babajanian, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Leo Brouwer, Karel Svoboda, Johann Strauss III, and Péter Eötvös.

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Among people born in 1580, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 12. Before him are Josaphat Kuntsevych, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ernst von Mansfeld, Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, and Cristóvão Ferreira. After him are Augusta of Denmark, António de Andrade, Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania, Andrea Falconieri, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, and Pierre Vernier. Among people deceased in 1651, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 11. Before him are Tokugawa Iemitsu, Abraham Bloemaert, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Tugay Bey, and Giulia Tofana. After him are Cornelis de Vos, Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, Heinrich Albert, Henry Ireton, and Jacob Adriaensz Backer.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 2,009 out of 5,161. Before him are Angelo De Donatis (1954), Filippo Taglioni (1777), Ferrante Gonzaga (1507), Antonio Rosmini (1797), Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (1781), and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895). After him are Giovanni Baglione (1566), Giovanni Battista Donati (1826), Alberto Tomba (1966), Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus (100), Luca Toni (1977), and Antonio Cabrini (1957).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger ranks 98. Before him are Ferdinando Paer (1771), Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550), Maddalena Casulana (1544), Francesco Maria Veracini (1690), Remo Giazotto (1910), and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895). After him are Giacinto Scelsi (1905), Luigi Rossi (1597), Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663), Tommaso Traetta (1727), Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720), and Pietro Nardini (1722).

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