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Sylvano Bussotti

1931 - 2021

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Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher. His compositions employ graphic notation, which has often created special problems of interpretation. He was known as a composer for the stage. His first opera was La Passion selon Sade, premiered in Palermo in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvano Bussotti is the 1,055th most popular composer (up from 1,078th in 2019), the 3,318th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,397th in 2019) and the 158th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 1,055 out of 1,451. Before him are Gavriil Popov, Nicolas Dalayrac, Richard Addinsell, Francisco Mignone, Johann Theile, and Frederick Loewe. After him are Karen Khachaturian, Joseph Lamb, Alessandro Striggio, Igor Krutoy, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, and James MacMillan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 315. Before him are Vaino Väljas, Maria Gusakova, Norman Read, Olja Ivanjicki, Alain Cavalier, and Shammi Kapoor. After him are Karl-Friedrich Haas, Jerry Van Dyke, Tullio Regge, Ángel Berni, Jorge Edwards, and Agustín García-Gasco Vicente. Among people deceased in 2021, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 322. Before him are Charlie Robinson, Frederic Rzewski, Mustafa Ben Halim, Charles Geschke, Lothar Metz, and Mansour Ojjeh. After him are Karl-Friedrich Haas, Angelica Bella, Nikolai Slichenko, Lee Wan-koo, Edmund Gettier, and Ivo Trumbić.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 3,319 out of 5,161. Before him are Steno (1917), Antonino Rocca (1921), Radoald of Benevento (650), Silvio Orlando (1957), Gian Piero Ventura (1948), and Gaetano Savi (1769). After him are Francesco Mario Pagano (1748), Alessandro Striggio (1540), Giuseppe Piermarini (1734), Pietro Palazzini (1912), Dalila Di Lazzaro (1953), and Giuseppe Baldo (1914).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Sylvano Bussotti ranks 158. Before him are Attilio Ariosti (1666), Francesco Araja (1709), Alberto Franchetti (1860), Alessandro Grandi (1586), Marco da Gagliano (1582), and Michele Carafa (1787). After him are Alessandro Striggio (1540), Lorenzo Perosi (1872), Franco Faccio (1840), Annibale Padovano (1527), Felice Anerio (1560), and Giovanni Maria Nanino (1544).

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