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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 52,406 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Forqueray is the 697th most popular composer (down from 640th in 2019), the 2,784th most popular biography from France (down from 2,511th in 2019) and the 98th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antoine Forqueray ranks 697 out of 1,216. Before her are Rued Langgaard, Christian Cannabich, Mélanie Bonis, Wim Mertens, Krzysztof Komeda, and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann. After her are František Brixi, Franz Lachner, Veljo Tormis, Alexander Mosolov, Benjamin Godard, and Dave Grusin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, Antoine Forqueray ranks 14. Before her are Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, 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 8. Before her are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Robert Walpole, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Ibrahim Muteferrika, and Tomaso Antonio Vitali. After her are Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Nicola Fago, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 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 2,784 out of 6,011. Before her are Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Antoine Coysevox (1640), Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (1498), Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence (1114), Claude Lefort (1924), and Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678). After her are Gustave Kahn (1859), Sami Frey (1937), Anne Jules de Noailles (1650), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), and Louis de Beaufront (1855).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Antoine Forqueray ranks 98. Before her are Nicolas Gombert (1495), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), Joseph Canteloube (1879), André Messager (1853), and Mélanie Bonis (1858). After her are Benjamin Godard (1849), Robert Cambert (1628), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Michel Corrette (1707), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), and Henri Rabaud (1873).

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