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Antoine Forqueray

1671 - 1745

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Antoine Forqueray (September 1672 – 28 June 1745) was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba. Forqueray, born in Paris, was the first in a line of composers which included his sons Jean-Baptiste (1699–1782) and Nicolas Gilles (1703–1761) as well as his brother Michel (1681–1757). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Forqueray has received more than 55,765 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Antoine Forqueray is the 668th most popular composer (up from 696th in 2019), the 2,752nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,775th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Composer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antoine Forqueray ranks 668 out of 1,451. Before her are Jacob van Eyck, Johann Schobert, Johann Strauss III, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, William Boyce, and Antoine François Marmontel. After her are Antônio Carlos Gomes, Alex North, Otakar Ševčík, Johann Joseph Abert, Sergei Lyapunov, and Louise Farrenc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, Antoine Forqueray ranks 14. Before her are Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Rob Roy MacGregor, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Johann Christoph Bach, and Luigi Guido Grandi. After her are Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, Alivardi Khan, and Colley Cibber. Among people deceased in 1745, Antoine Forqueray ranks 9. Before her are Robert Walpole, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Ibrahim Muteferrika, and Tomaso Antonio Vitali. After her are Nicola Fago, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, and James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Forqueray ranks 2,752 out of 6,770. Before her are Adémar de Chabannes (989), Marcel Camus (1912), Walter of Châtillon (1135), Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao (1796), Jenny Longuet (1844), and Antoine François Marmontel (1816). After her are Roger Walkowiak (1927), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Bruno Metsu (1954), Gustave Aimard (1818), Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803), and René Crevel (1900).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Antoine Forqueray ranks 95. Before her are Claude Goudimel (1514), Jean Françaix (1912), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), Ferdinand Hérold (1791), Charles Lecocq (1832), and Antoine François Marmontel (1816). After her are Louise Farrenc (1804), Edmond Audran (1840), Antoine Brumel (1460), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Michel Corrette (1707), and Nicolas Gombert (1495).

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