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Nicola Porpora

1686 - 1768

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Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 1686 – 3 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicola Porpora is the 143rd most popular composer (up from 221st in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,045th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Italian Composer.

Nicola Porpora is most famous for being a composer of opera in the 18th century.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nicola Porpora ranks 143 out of 1,451. Before him are Édouard Lalo, John Field, Franz von Suppé, Sofia Gubaidulina, Pérotin, and Giovanni Paisiello. After him are André Grétry, Johannes Ockeghem, Gregorio Allegri, Alfred Newman, Darius Milhaud, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1686, Nicola Porpora ranks 2. Before him is Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. After him are Hans Egede, Benedetto Marcello, Charles, Duke of Berry, Senesino, Hakuin Ekaku, Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Vasily Tatishchev, Antoine de Jussieu, and Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz. Among people deceased in 1768, Nicola Porpora ranks 4. Before him are Canaletto, Marie Leszczyńska, and Johann Joachim Winckelmann. After him are Laurence Sterne, Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Nicola Porpora ranks 716 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720), Publius Quinctilius Varus (-46), Cosima Wagner (1837), Donatella Versace (1955), Beatrice Portinari (1265), and Camillus de Lellis (1550). After him are Francesco Totti (1976), Silvio Piola (1913), Olybrius (400), Charles II of Naples (1254), Manfred, King of Sicily (1232), and Gregorio Allegri (1582).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Nicola Porpora ranks 29. Before him are Muzio Clementi (1752), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Giulio Caccini (1551), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557), and Giovanni Paisiello (1740). After him are Gregorio Allegri (1582), Ottorino Respighi (1879), Gian Carlo Menotti (1911), Luciano Berio (1925), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), and Francesco Cavalli (1602).

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