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Valentino Fioravanti

1764 - 1837

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Valentino Fioravanti (11 September 1764 – 16 June 1837) was a celebrated Italian composer of opera buffas. Fioravanti was born in Rome. One of the best opera buffa composers between Domenico Cimarosa and Gioacchino Rossini, he was especially popular in Naples, and was the first in Italy to introduce spoken dialogue in the French manner in his works, sometimes using the Neapolitan dialect. His works included some 70 operas, the most famous being Le cantatrici villane from 1799. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valentino Fioravanti is the 976th most popular composer (down from 870th in 2019), the 3,146th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,891st in 2019) and the 148th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Valentino Fioravanti ranks 976 out of 1,451. Before him are Ignaz Holzbauer, Tigran Chukhajian, Camargo Guarnieri, Allan Pettersson, Julius Rietz, and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch. After him are Friedrich Gernsheim, Arnold Mendelssohn, Miina Härma, Bojan Adamič, Édouard Deldevez, and August Enna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Valentino Fioravanti ranks 24. Before him are Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Dorothea von Schlegel, Charles Percier, Gustav Hugo, Jens Baggesen, and Marie-Joseph Chénier. After him are János Bihari, Sidney Smith, Henriette Herz, Josef Abel, Edward Livingston, and John Mawe. Among people deceased in 1837, Valentino Fioravanti ranks 35. Before him are Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Gaspar del Bufalo, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Alexander Bestuzhev, and Agustín Eyzaguirre. After him are Yuri Lisyansky, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Pavel Schilling, Diego Portales, Herman of Alaska, and John Soane.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Valentino Fioravanti ranks 3,147 out of 5,161. Before him are Sergio Rossi (1935), Giulio Alenio (1582), Castruccio Castracani (1281), Luigi Capuana (1839), Sergio Martino (1938), and Bruno Mattei (1931). After him are Francesco Alidosi (1455), Benedetto I Zaccaria (1240), Pupi Avati (1938), Benedetto Antelami (1150), Lorenzo Cybo de Mari (1450), and Carlo Rustichelli (1916).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Valentino Fioravanti ranks 148. Before him are Antonio Bertali (1605), Francesco Manfredini (1684), Giovanni Animuccia (1520), Giovanni Battista Bassani (1650), Franco Donatoni (1927), and Francesco Provenzale (1632). After him are Carlo Rustichelli (1916), Alessandro Rolla (1757), Nicola Piovani (1946), Attilio Ariosti (1666), Francesco Araja (1709), and Alberto Franchetti (1860).

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