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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 165,833 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ambroise Thomas is the 220th most popular composer (up from 255th in 2019), the 1,012th most popular biography from France (up from 1,129th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Composer.

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

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ambroise Thomas ranks 220 out of 1,216Before him are Ernest Chausson, Josef Suk, James Horner, Niccolò Piccinni, Charles-Marie Widor, and François-Joseph Gossec. After him are Jacob Obrecht, Sofia Gubaidulina, Pietro Locatelli, Alfred Schnittke, Anton Reicha, and Lili Boulanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Ambroise Thomas ranks 14Before him are William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isaac Singer, Louis Blanc, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Vissarion Belinsky. After him are Elisha Otis, François Achille Bazaine, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Zeng Guofan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Jón Sigurðsson. Among people deceased in 1896, Ambroise Thomas ranks 17Before him are Ivar Aasen, John Everett Millais, H. H. Holmes, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Edmond de Goncourt, and José Rizal. After him are Louis-Jules Trochu, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, John Langdon Down, Richard Avenarius, Frederic Leighton, and Prince Henry of Battenberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 1,012 out of 6,011Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), René II, Duke of Lorraine (1451), Claude of France (1547), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813), and Clotilde of France (1759). After him are Carole Bouquet (1957), Léon Bourgeois (1851), Maurice Denis (1870), Joseph Liouville (1809), Abel Gance (1889), and Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 36Before him are Marin Marais (1656), Pauline Viardot (1821), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Francis Lai (1932), Ernest Chausson (1855), and Charles-Marie Widor (1844). After him are Lili Boulanger (1893), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Fromental Halévy (1799), Albert Roussel (1869), and Jacques Ibert (1890).