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André Grétry

1741 - 1813

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André Ernest Modeste Grétry (French: [gʁɛtʁi]; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous for his opéras comiques. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Grétry has received more than 127,905 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). André Grétry is the 202nd most popular composer (up from 266th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Belgian Composer.

André Grétry is most famous for his operas. He was born in 1741 in Liège, Belgium and died in 1813 in Paris, France.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, André Grétry ranks 202 out of 1,451. Before him are François-Joseph Gossec, Philippe de Vitry, Johann Joachim Quantz, Ludwig Minkus, Niels Gade, and Eugène Ysaÿe. After him are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Michael Praetorius, Gilles Binchois, Alessandro Marcello, Steve Reich, and Angelo Badalamenti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1741, André Grétry ranks 11. Before him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Peter Simon Pallas, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Andrea Luchesi, Benedict Arnold, and Jean-Antoine Houdon. After him are Johann Kaspar Lavater, Emperor Momozono, Nicolas Chamfort, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Augustin Barruel. Among people deceased in 1813, André Grétry ranks 6. Before him are Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Mikhail Kutuzov, Józef Poniatowski, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, and Empress Go-Sakuramachi. After him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Christoph Martin Wieland, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Tecumseh, and Rose Bertin.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, André Grétry ranks 108 out of 1,190. Before him are Philippe de Champaigne (1602), Gerard de Ridefort (1141), Félicien Rops (1833), Pieter Claesz (1596), Joseph Plateau (1801), and Eugène Ysaÿe (1858). After him are Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1673), Gilles Binchois (1400), Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (1837), Karel van Mander (1548), Morris (1923), and Yves Chauvin (1930).

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Among COMPOSERS In Belgium

Among composers born in Belgium, André Grétry ranks 8. Before him are Guillaume Du Fay (1397), César Franck (1822), Johannes Ockeghem (1410), Jacob Obrecht (1457), Adrian Willaert (1490), and Eugène Ysaÿe (1858). After him are Gilles Binchois (1400), Henri Vieuxtemps (1820), Pierre De Geyter (1848), Heinrich Isaac (1450), Cipriano de Rore (1515), and Jacques Arcadelt (1507).

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