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André Cardinal Destouches

1672 - 1749

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André Cardinal Destouches (sometimes called des Touches) (baptised 6 April 1672 – 7 February 1749) was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Cardinal Destouches has received more than 40,823 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. André Cardinal Destouches is the 840th most popular composer (up from 891st in 2019), the 3,330th most popular biography from France (down from 3,294th in 2019) and the 120th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, André Cardinal Destouches ranks 840 out of 1,451. Before him are Salvatore Sciarrino, Nikos Skalkottas, George Crumb, Ramin Djawadi, Simon Sechter, and André Caplet. After him are Edward MacDowell, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Stanley Myers, Charles Villiers Stanford, Louis Niedermeyer, and Heinrich Bach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1672, André Cardinal Destouches ranks 8. Before him are Pylyp Orlyk, Joseph Addison, Nicolas de Grigny, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, and Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Zhang Tingyu, Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg, and Richard Steele. Among people deceased in 1749, André Cardinal Destouches ranks 12. Before him are Jan van Huysum, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, William Jones, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, and Matthias Bel. After him are Jan Frans van Bloemen, Shahu I, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, and Mark Catesby.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Cardinal Destouches ranks 3,330 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755), Bernard Picart (1673), Claude Abbes (1927), Jorge Chávez (1887), Bernard Giraudeau (1947), and André Caplet (1878). After him are Sylvain Wiltord (1974), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Charles de La Fosse (1636), and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, André Cardinal Destouches ranks 120. Before him are Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), Michel Blavet (1700), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Robert Cambert (1628), Alfred Bruneau (1857), and André Caplet (1878). After him are Henri-Montan Berton (1767), Déodat de Séverac (1872), Joseph Canteloube (1879), Henri Tomasi (1901), Albéric Magnard (1865), and Loyset Compère (1440).

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