← Fame through time1700-1799
The 18th century
Whose working lives fell in the 18th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 18th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Antonio Vivaldi14 decades - 2
Antonio Salieri15 decades - 3
Domenico Scarlatti17 decades - 4
Farinelli22 decades - 5
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi8 decades - 6
Luigi Boccherini13 decades - 7
Tomaso Albinoni8 decades - 8
Muzio Clementi17 decades - 9
Domenico Cimarosa22 decades - 10
Giovanni Paisiello22 decades - 11
Giovanni Battista Viotti3 decades - 12
Nicola Porpora12 decades - 13
Benedetto Marcello22 decades - 14
Giovanni Bononcini9 decades - 15
Niccolò Jommelli9 decades - 16
Domenico Alberti7 decades - 17Andrea Luchesi1 decades
- 18Giuseppe Sammartini1 decades
- 19Giovanni Benedetto Platti0 decades
- 20Francesco Barsanti0 decades
- 21
Teresa Saporitinot measured- - 22Rosa Ruvinetti Bonnot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.