COMPOSER

André Messager

1853 - 1929

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André Charles Prosper Messager (French: [mɛsaʒe]; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and opéra comique Véronique (1898) have had lasting success; Les p'tites Michu (1897) and Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) were also popular internationally. Messager took up the piano as a small child and later studied composition with, among others, Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Messager has received more than 210,182 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). André Messager is the 1,205th most popular composer (down from 677th in 2019), the 4,551st most popular biography from France (down from 2,699th in 2019) and the 159th most popular French Composer.

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  • 210k

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  • 47.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, André Messager ranks 1,205 out of 1,451. Before him are Marco Beltrami, Eino Tamberg, Pauline Oliveros, Akira Yamaoka, Johanna Kinkel, and Craig Armstrong. After him are Granville Bantock, Mark Snow, Ivor Novello, Antón García Abril, Leonard Slatkin, and Joonas Kokkonen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, André Messager ranks 93. Before him are Mato Kósyk, Konstantin Stoilov, René Bazin, Emilio Aceval, Gertrud Adelborg, and David Belasco. After him are Lucy Parsons, Maria Yermolova, Charles Howard Hinton, Gaston Bonnier, Henning von Holtzendorff, and Leander Starr Jameson. Among people deceased in 1929, André Messager ranks 119. Before him are Ted Wilde, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, David Dunbar Buick, Giacomo Bresadola, Jozef Murgaš, and Eugenio Tosi. After him are Franciszek Rychnowski, Otto Liebe, Edward Carpenter, Robert Ridgway, Walther Katzenstein, and Antoni Lange.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Messager ranks 4,551 out of 6,770. Before him are Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), Richard Gasquet (1986), Sabin Berthelot (1794), Maurice Cloche (1907), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (1985), and Raphaël Guerreiro (1993). After him are Henri Béraud (1885), Roger Gautier (1922), Maurice Larrouy (1872), Thibault Damour (1951), Randal Kolo Muani (1998), and Marceline Loridan-Ivens (1928).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, André Messager ranks 159. Before him are Philippe Verdelot (null), Betsy Jolas (1926), Robert Planquette (1848), Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682), Jeanne Demessieux (1921), and Michel Colombier (1939). After him are Camille Erlanger (1863), Paul Le Flem (1881), Pascal Dusapin (1955), Christian Wolff (1934), and Ludovic Bource (1970).

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