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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 199,646 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). André Messager is the 677th most popular composer (down from 669th in 2019), the 2,708th most popular biography from France (down from 2,595th in 2019) and the 96th most popular French Composer.

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  • 21

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, André Messager ranks 677 out of 1,216Before him are Franchinus Gaffurius, Sun Ra, Anton Schindler, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Giuseppe Sammartini, and Eduardo di Capua. After him are Isang Yun, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Sergei Bortkiewicz, Boris Asafyev, Gaspar Cassadó, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, André Messager ranks 49Before him are Damat Ferid Pasha, Sarada Devi, Ciprian Porumbescu, Francesco Filippini, Frank Dicksee, and Higaonna Kanryō. After him are Nikolai Kibalchich, Antonio Maura, Elihu Thomson, Teresa Carreño, John Wesley Hardin, and Hans von Koessler. Among people deceased in 1929, André Messager ranks 55Before him are Aletta Jacobs, Segundo de Chomón, Herman Potočnik, Jacek Malczewski, Adolf Meyer, and P. J. Kennedy. After him are Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Henri Gervex, Georg von der Marwitz, Hans Delbrück, José Batlle y Ordóñez, and Frederick Abberline.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Messager ranks 2,708 out of 6,011Before him are Petrus Comestor (1100), André Frossard (1915), Thomas, Count of Flanders (1199), Jean de Roquetaillade (1310), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), and François Isaac de Rivaz (1752). After him are Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Marcel Granet (1884), Jorge Chávez (1887), Jean François de Troy (1679), André Dussollier (1946), and Zaz (1980).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, André Messager ranks 96Before him are Léon Boëllmann (1862), Charles Lecocq (1832), Nicolas Gombert (1495), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), and Joseph Canteloube (1879). After him are Mélanie Bonis (1858), Antoine Forqueray (1671), Benjamin Godard (1849), Robert Cambert (1628), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), and Michel Corrette (1707).