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Ottorino Respighi

1879 - 1936

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Ottorino Respighi ( resp-EE-ghee, US also rəsp-, Italian: [ottoˈriːno reˈspiːɡi]; 9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928). Respighi was born in Bologna to a musical and artistic family. He was encouraged by his father to pursue music at a young age, and took formal tuition in the violin and piano. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ottorino Respighi is the 156th most popular composer (down from 149th in 2019), the 780th most popular biography from Italy (down from 727th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Italian Composer.

Ottorino Respighi is most famous for his orchestral suites for The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ottorino Respighi ranks 156 out of 1,451. Before him are Paul Dukas, Christopher Hogwood, Marin Marais, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, François-Joseph Gossec, and Léonin. After him are George Enescu, César Cui, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Enrique Granados, Iannis Xenakis, and Eduard Strauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Ottorino Respighi ranks 19. Before him are Symon Petliura, Alma Mahler, Milutin Milanković, Hans Luther, Rudolf von Laban, and Francis Picabia. After him are Ramana Maharshi, An Jung-geun, Italo Gariboldi, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Léon Jouhaux. Among people deceased in 1936, Ottorino Respighi ranks 22. Before him are Charles Nicolle, Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, Alexander Glazunov, G. K. Chesterton, and Albert Fish. After him are Louis Blériot, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hans von Seeckt, Elsa Einstein, Karl Kraus, and Premchand.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ottorino Respighi ranks 780 out of 5,161. Before him are Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), Aulus Gellius (123), Luca della Robbia (1399), Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759), and Agathocles of Syracuse (-361). After him are Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860), Peter Lombard (1096), Andrea del Castagno (1420), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Giancarlo Giannini (1942), and Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ottorino Respighi ranks 31. Before him are Giulio Caccini (1551), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), Nicola Porpora (1686), and Gregorio Allegri (1582). After him are Gian Carlo Menotti (1911), Luciano Berio (1925), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Francesco Cavalli (1602), Baldassare Galuppi (1706), and Vincenzo Galilei (1520).

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