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Alexandre Guilmant

1837 - 1911

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Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (French pronunciation: [feliks alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɡilmɑ̃]; 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 135,422 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Guilmant is the 513th most popular composer (up from 525th in 2019), the 2,137th most popular biography from France (up from 2,138th in 2019) and the 76th most popular French Composer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.74

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 513 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexandre Tansman, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Peter Cornelius, Joachim Raff, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, and Christian Sinding. After him are Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Carmine Coppola, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Danny Elfman, Jacob Clemens non Papa, and Francesco Maria Veracini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 43. Before him are Wild Bill Hickok, Pierre Auguste Cot, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Théodore Dubois, Georg Ebers, and Ion Creangă. After him are Mubarak Al-Sabah, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, Ernest Guiraud, Itagaki Taisuke, Carolus-Duran, and Prince Albert of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1911, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 30. Before him are Sister Nivedita, Johan Svendsen, Jules Brunet, Christian Bohr, Williamina Fleming, and Joseph Dalton Hooker. After him are George Johnstone Stoney, Félix Ziem, James Curtis Hepburn, Sam Loyd, Ernst Brenner, and Konrad Duden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 2,137 out of 6,770. Before him are François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (1616), Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1637), Jacques Doillon (1944), Alexandre Ribot (1842), Octave Lapize (1887), and Jean-Marie Guyau (1854). After him are François de Charette (1763), Marie Bracquemond (1840), Pierre Clémenti (1942), Martine Carol (1920), Yvonne de Gaulle (1900), and Charles, Prince of Soubise (1715).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Alexandre Guilmant ranks 76. Before him are Antoine Busnois (1430), Théodore Dubois (1837), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Maurice Duruflé (1902), Florent Schmitt (1870), and Alexandre Desplat (1961). After him are Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Hervé (1825), Edgard Varèse (1883), Louis Couperin (1626), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), and Pierre Henry (1927).

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