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Luigi Rossi

1597 - 1653

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Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque, organist of the Santa Casa dell’Annunziata and maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy. Rossi later entered the service of the Caetani, dukes of Traetta. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Rossi is the 555th most popular composer (down from 533rd in 2019), the 2,043rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,989th in 2019) and the 100th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Luigi Rossi ranks 555 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Leo Brouwer, Karel Svoboda, Johann Strauss III, Péter Eötvös, and Giacinto Scelsi. After him are Johann David Heinichen, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Franz Doppler, Conradin Kreutzer, Hermann Scherchen, and Johann Gottlieb Naumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1597, Luigi Rossi ranks 12. Before him are Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Martin Opitz, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Justus Sustermans, and François Duquesnoy. After him are Johann Liss, John Francis Regis, Senhime, Salomon de Bray, Cornelis Schut, and Vincent Voiture. Among people deceased in 1653, Luigi Rossi ranks 5. Before him are Artemisia Gentileschi, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Maarten Tromp, and Gabriel Naudé. After him are Robert Filmer, Simon de Vlieger, Jan Wildens, Adriaen van Utrecht, Lucrezia Marinella, Théophraste Renaudot, and Claudius Salmasius.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Rossi ranks 2,043 out of 5,161. Before him are Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (1926), Arduin of Ivrea (955), Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus (-91), Giacinto Scelsi (1905), Ignazio La Russa (1947), and Paolo Veneziano (1300). After him are Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1514), Agnes of Montepulciano (1268), Renato Carosone (1920), Leopoldo de' Medici (1617), Thiago Alcântara (1991), and Giovanna Garzoni (1600).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Luigi Rossi ranks 100. Before him are Maddalena Casulana (1544), Francesco Maria Veracini (1690), Remo Giazotto (1910), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895), Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580), and Giacinto Scelsi (1905). After him are Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663), Tommaso Traetta (1727), Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720), Pietro Nardini (1722), Eduardo di Capua (1865), and Riccardo Drigo (1846).

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