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Jacobus Gallus

1550 - 1591

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Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl; between 15 April and 31 July 1550 – 18 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacobus Gallus is the 388th most popular composer (down from 357th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovene Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jacobus Gallus ranks 388 out of 1,451. Before him are Ferdinando Carulli, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Giovanni Bottesini, Joaquín Turina, André Jolivet, and Cole Porter. After him are Johann Adam Reincken, Giovanni Legrenzi, Richard Rodgers, Charles Koechlin, Karl Richter, and Henri Dutilleux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1550, Jacobus Gallus ranks 16. Before him are Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Jang-geum, Stanislaus Kostka, Karin Månsdotter, Giorgio Basta, and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia. After him are Emilio de' Cavalieri, Chand Bibi, Michael Maestlin, False Dmitry III, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, and Tang Xianzu. Among people deceased in 1591, Jacobus Gallus ranks 8. Before him are Pope Innocent IX, John of the Cross, Aloysius Gonzaga, Vincenzo Galilei, Sen no Rikyū, and Dmitry of Uglich. After him are Veronica Franco, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Luis de León, Jost Amman, Anna Sophia of Prussia, and Anna of Hesse.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Jacobus Gallus ranks 28 out of 340. Before him are Danilo Türk (1952), Janez Janša (1958), Aleksander Čeferin (1967), Franc Rode (1934), Antonio Abetti (1846), and Nino Benvenuti (1938). After him are Branko Oblak (1947), Hermann II, Count of Celje (1361), Anton Ažbe (1862), Thomas Luckmann (1927), Anton Janša (1734), and Jurij Vega (1754).

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Among COMPOSERS In Slovenia

Among composers born in Slovenia, Jacobus Gallus ranks 2. Before him are Hugo Wolf (1860). After him are Slavko Avsenik (1929).

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