COMPOSER

Ambroise Thomas

1811 - 1896

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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz tɔmɑ]; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ambroise Thomas has received more than 178,242 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Ambroise Thomas is the 250th most popular composer (down from 220th in 2019), the 1,142nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,009th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Composer.

Ambroise Thomas is most famous for his opera Mignon, which he composed in 1866.

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  • 180k

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  • 61.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ambroise Thomas ranks 250 out of 1,451. Before him are Alfred Schnittke, Francesco Durante, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Otto Nicolai, Pierre Schaeffer, and Jacques Ibert. After him are Clemens Krauss, Emmanuel Chabrier, Francesco Geminiani, Marcel Dupré, Anton Reicha, and Franz Xaver Gruber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Ambroise Thomas ranks 16. Before him are William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Vissarion Belinsky, Louis Blanc, François Achille Bazaine, and Elisha Otis. After him are Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Zeng Guofan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jón Sigurðsson, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and Jules Dupré. Among people deceased in 1896, Ambroise Thomas ranks 19. Before him are Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H. H. Holmes, Edmond de Goncourt, Louis-Jules Trochu, and Richard Avenarius. After him are John Langdon Down, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Ichiyō Higuchi, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Emil du Bois-Reymond, and Frederic Leighton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 1,142 out of 6,770. Before him are Edmond Becquerel (1820), Jacques Ibert (1890), Pierre Brice (1929), Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753), Robert I, Count of Artois (1216), and Bertran de Born (1140). After him are Louise of France (1737), Christophe Plantin (1520), Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (1012), Jean Giraudoux (1882), Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), and Jeanne d'Évreux (1310).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 40. Before him are Lili Boulanger (1893), Ernest Chausson (1855), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), Albert Roussel (1869), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), and Jacques Ibert (1890). After him are Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Marcel Dupré (1886), Fromental Halévy (1799), Georges Auric (1899), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), and Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766).

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