COMPOSER

Ruggero Leoncavallo

1857 - 1919

Photo of Ruggero Leoncavallo

Icon of person Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 1857 – 9 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs, but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success. Today Pagliacci continues to be his most famous opera and one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the operatic repertory. His other notable compositions include the song "Mattinata", popularized by Enrico Caruso, and, to a lesser extent, his version of La bohème which, however, was overshadowed by Puccini's highly successful opera of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruggero Leoncavallo is the 97th most popular composer, the 478th most popular biography from Italy (down from 447th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Italian Composer.

Ruggero Leoncavallo is most famous for his opera "Pagliacci."

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Ruggero Leoncavallo by language

Loading...

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 97 out of 1,451. Before him are Carl Czerny, Nino Rota, John Cage, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Pierre Boulez, and Jacopo Peri. After him are Leonard Bernstein, Pietro Mascagni, Mikis Theodorakis, Arvo Pärt, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Joaquín Rodrigo.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 11. Before him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Edward Elgar, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Joseph Conrad, and Henrik Pontoppidan. After him are Alfonso XII of Spain, William Howard Taft, Ronald Ross, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Alfred Binet, and Theo van Gogh. Among people deceased in 1919, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 13. Before him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfred Werner, Gojong of Korea, Karl Liebknecht, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, and Emiliano Zapata. After him are Georg von Hertling, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Larsson, William Crookes, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and Yakov Sverdlov.

Others Born in 1857

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1919

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 478 out of 5,161. Before him are Monica Bellucci (1964), Jacopo Peri (1561), Simone Martini (1284), Andrea del Sarto (1486), Andrea Doria (1466), and Vittorio De Sica (1901). After him are Parmigianino (1503), Alessandro Cagliostro (1743), Pietro Mascagni (1863), Gaius Cassius Longinus (-87), Pope John XVIII (970), and Pope Zephyrinus (150).

Others born in Italy

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ruggero Leoncavallo ranks 20. Before him are Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Luigi Cherubini (1760), Luigi Boccherini (1743), Nino Rota (1911), and Jacopo Peri (1561). After him are Pietro Mascagni (1863), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Muzio Clementi (1752), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Giulio Caccini (1551), and Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583).

Italian born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous