1853 - 1929
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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Among composers, André Messager ranks 677 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1451 - 1522
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 671
1914 - 1993
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 672
1795 - 1864
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 673
1859 - 1951
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 674
1695 - 1750
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 675
1865 - 1917
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 676
1853 - 1929
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 677
1917 - 1995
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 678
1656 - 1746
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 679
1877 - 1952
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 680
1884 - 1949
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 681
1897 - 1966
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 682
1877 - 1933
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 683
Among people born in 1853, André Messager ranks 49. Before 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 55. Before 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.
1853 - 1923
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 43
1853 - 1920
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 44
1853 - 1883
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 45
1853 - 1895
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 46
1853 - 1928
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 47
1853 - 1916
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 48
1853 - 1929
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 49
1853 - 1881
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 50
1853 - 1925
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 51
1853 - 1937
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 52
1853 - 1917
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 53
1853 - 1895
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 54
1853 - 1926
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 55
1854 - 1929
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 49
1871 - 1929
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 50
1892 - 1929
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 51
1854 - 1929
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 52
1881 - 1929
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 53
1858 - 1929
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 54
1853 - 1929
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 55
1847 - 1929
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 56
1852 - 1929
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 57
1856 - 1929
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 58
1848 - 1929
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 59
1856 - 1929
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 60
1843 - 1929
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 61
Among people born in France, André Messager ranks 2,708 out of 6,011. Before 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).
1100 - 1179
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 2,702
1915 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 2,703
1199 - 1259
HPI: 53.37
Rank: 2,704
1310 - 1365
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 2,705
1154 - 1173
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 2,706
1752 - 1828
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 2,707
1853 - 1929
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 2,708
1729 - 1788
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 2,709
1884 - 1940
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 2,710
1887 - 1910
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,711
1679 - 1752
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,712
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,713
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 2,714
Among composers born in France, André Messager ranks 96. Before 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).
1862 - 1897
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 90
1832 - 1918
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 91
1495 - 1560
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 92
1666 - 1747
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 93
1711 - 1772
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 94
1879 - 1957
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 95
1853 - 1929
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 96
1858 - 1937
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 97
1671 - 1745
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 98
1849 - 1895
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 99
1628 - 1677
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 100
1789 - 1856
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 101
1707 - 1795
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 102