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Benjamin Godard

1849 - 1895

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Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 1849 – 10 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Godard has received more than 101,329 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Godard is the 702nd most popular composer, the 2,800th most popular biography from France and the 99th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Benjamin Godard ranks 702 out of 1,216Before him are Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Antoine Forqueray, František Brixi, Franz Lachner, Veljo Tormis, and Alexander Mosolov. After him are Dave Grusin, Robert Cambert, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Eduard Tubin, Amy Beach, and Oskar Merikanto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Benjamin Godard ranks 53Before him are Karl Brugmann, Johan August Brinell, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, and William Ernest Henley. After him are Fritz Mauthner, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Luther Burbank, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Ruy Barbosa, and Jean Richepin. Among people deceased in 1895, Benjamin Godard ranks 41Before him are Ding Ruchang, Francesco Filippini, Stefan Stambolov, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, and Karl Vogt. After him are Albert F. Mummery, Lahiri Mahasaya, Eugen Langen, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, John Wesley Hardin, and Camilla Collett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benjamin Godard ranks 2,800 out of 6,011Before him are Auguste Vaillant (1861), Robert Casadesus (1899), François-Henri Pinault (1962), Albert Girard (1595), John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (1638), and Bernadette Chirac (1933). After him are Marc Seguin (1786), Louis, Duke of Guyenne (1397), Robert Cambert (1628), David Kimhi (1160), Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1722), and Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma (1933).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Benjamin Godard ranks 99Before him are Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), Joseph Canteloube (1879), André Messager (1853), Mélanie Bonis (1858), and Antoine Forqueray (1671). After him are Robert Cambert (1628), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Michel Corrette (1707), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), Henri Rabaud (1873), and Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629).