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Alexandre Guilmant

1837 - 1911

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Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (French: [gilmɑ̃]; 12 March 1837 – 29 March 1911) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of La Trinité from 1871 until 1901. A noted pedagogue, performer, and improviser, Guilmant helped found the Schola Cantorum de Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Guilmant has received more than 128,610 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Guilmant is the 525th most popular composer (up from 583rd in 2019), the 2,145th most popular biography from France (up from 2,306th in 2019) and the 78th most popular French Composer.

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  • 21

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  • 7.41

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  • 1.76

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 525 out of 1,216Before him are Ferenc Erkel, Hervé, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Edgard Varèse, Gershon Kingsley, and Jean Françaix. After him are Johann Georg Pisendel, Eleni Karaindrou, Riz Ortolani, Zbigniew Preisner, Christian Sinding, and Joachim Raff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 43Before him are Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Carolus-Duran, Prince Albert of Prussia, and Théodore Dubois. After him are Henry Draper, Georg Ebers, Tippu Tip, Ernest Guiraud, Itagaki Taisuke, and John Wesley Hyatt. Among people deceased in 1911, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 30Before him are Jules Brunet, Williamina Fleming, Sam Loyd, George Johnstone Stoney, Jozef Israëls, and Sister Nivedita. After him are Joseph Dalton Hooker, Christian Bohr, John Hughlings Jackson, James Curtis Hepburn, Felix Mottl, and Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 2,145 out of 6,011Before him are Jacques Audiard (1952), Henry II, Duke of Guise (1614), Jean Girault (1924), Ivo of Chartres (1040), Jean Françaix (1912), and Maria of Navarre (1326). After him are Amalric of Bena (1150), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Gilbert de la Porrée (1070), Manitas de Plata (1921), Henri Gouraud (1867), and André Leroi-Gourhan (1911).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 78Before him are Ferdinand Hérold (1791), Antoine Busnois (1430), Théodore Dubois (1837), Hervé (1825), Edgard Varèse (1883), and Jean Françaix (1912). After him are Gabriel Pierné (1863), Louis Couperin (1626), Pierre Henry (1927), François Devienne (1759), Jehan Alain (1911), and Alexandre Desplat (1961).