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Pasquale Anfossi

1727 - 1797

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Pasquale Anfossi (5 April 1727 – February 1797) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Republic of Genoa, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome. He wrote more than 80 operas, both opera seria and opera buffa, although he concentrated on church music, especially oratorios, during his last years. Anfossi died in Rome in 1797. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pasquale Anfossi is the 589th most popular composer (down from 582nd in 2019), the 1,862nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,631st in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 589 out of 1,451. Before him are Hervé, Tikhon Khrennikov, Manos Hatzidakis, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Ferdinand Hérold, and Morton Feldman. After him are Sebastián Iradier, Evald Aav, Tommaso Traetta, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Claude Goudimel, and Antonia Brico.

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Among people born in 1727, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 16. Before him are Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jean-André Deluc, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón. After him are Tommaso Traetta, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, James Wolfe, Philibert Commerson, and Horatio Gates. Among people deceased in 1797, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 16. Before him are Lazare Hoche, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Vilna Gaon, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec. After him are Wang Zhenyi, Asaf-ud-Daula, Olaudah Equiano, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Ivan Shuvalov, and Francesco Sabatini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 1,862 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Collins (1931), David Jacobs (1888), William Murdoch (1754), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Richard Aldington (1892), and John Guillermin (1925). After him are John Ball (1338), Elvis Costello (1954), Arthur Rackham (1867), Lennox Lewis (1965), Tommy Smith (1945), and Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Pasquale Anfossi ranks 25. Before him are Neville Marriner (1924), Orlando Gibbons (1583), David Rose (1910), Frederick Delius (1862), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), and William Boyce (1711). After him are John Bull (1562), John Taverner (1490), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Arthur Sullivan (1842), Jeremiah Clarke (1674), and John Stanley (1712).

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