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Michele Carafa

1787 - 1872

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Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858. One of his notable pupils was Achille Peri. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michele Carafa is the 1,043rd most popular composer (down from 893rd in 2019), the 3,300th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,925th in 2019) and the 157th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Michele Carafa ranks 1,043 out of 1,451. Before him are Slavko Avsenik, Marco da Gagliano, Emil Młynarski, William Sterndale Bennett, Carlos Guastavino, and Johann Adolf Scheibe. After him are Frederic Rzewski, Alexander Moyzes, Harry Gregson-Williams, Rudolf Tobias, Akira Ifukube, and Gavriil Popov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Michele Carafa ranks 39. Before him are Ramón Freire, Pellegrino Rossi, John Richardson, Ninomiya Sontoku, José María Bocanegra, and Joaquín Mosquera. After him are Thomas Say, Konstantin Batyushkov, Manuel Dorrego, Sven Nilsson, Pedro Vélez, and Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine. Among people deceased in 1872, Michele Carafa ranks 54. Before him are Martin Ohm, Edwin Atherstone, Michel Carré, Henry Halleck, Dimitrija Demeter, and Franz Xaver Fieber. After him are Hugo von Mohl, Andrej Sládkovič, William Davies Evans, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Benjamin Briggs, and Nikolaos Mantzaros.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michele Carafa ranks 3,301 out of 5,161. Before him are Eugenio Tosi (1864), Mario Genta (1912), Fulvio Bernardini (1905), Alois Riehl (1844), Vasco Pratolini (1913), and Dino Compagni (1255). After him are Marcella Bella (1952), Michele Morosini (1308), Giuseppe Bottai (1895), Stephan El Shaarawy (1992), Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677), and Francesco Bartolozzi (1725).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Michele Carafa ranks 157. Before him are Nicola Piovani (1946), Attilio Ariosti (1666), Francesco Araja (1709), Alberto Franchetti (1860), Alessandro Grandi (1586), and Marco da Gagliano (1582). After him are Sylvano Bussotti (1931), Alessandro Striggio (1540), Lorenzo Perosi (1872), Franco Faccio (1840), Annibale Padovano (1527), and Felice Anerio (1560).

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