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Charles Koechlin

1867 - 1950

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Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (French: [ʃaʁl lwi øʒɛn keklɛ̃]; 27 November 1867 – 31 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his better known works is Les Heures persanes, a set of piano pieces based on the novel Vers Ispahan by Pierre Loti and The Seven Stars Symphony, a 7 movement symphony where each movement is themed around a different film star (all Silent era stars) who were popular at the time of the piece's writing (1933). He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars (especially Lilian Harvey and Ginger Rogers), traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Koechlin has received more than 170,471 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Koechlin is the 375th most popular composer (up from 406th in 2019), the 1,683rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,731st in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Composer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Koechlin ranks 375 out of 1,451. Before him are Domenico Zipoli, Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Alfredo Catalani, Grażyna Bacewicz, Wolfgang Wagner, and Joaquín Turina. After him are Hans Richter, Carl Heinrich Graun, Rodion Shchedrin, Jacques Arcadelt, Toru Takemitsu, and Cole Porter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Charles Koechlin ranks 42. Before him are Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Groener, Madam C. J. Walker, Henry L. Stimson, and Antti Aarne. After him are Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Winsor McCay, Sister Nivedita, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, and Hans Driesch. Among people deceased in 1950, Charles Koechlin ranks 49. Before him are Melitta Bentz, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Fevzi Çakmak, Vasil Kolarov, and Jan Smuts. After him are Salvatore Giuliano, Adam Rainer, Grigory Kulik, Liane de Pougy, Rafael Sabatini, and Alfred Korzybski.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Koechlin ranks 1,683 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Henri Michel (1947), Hubert Lyautey (1854), François Fillon (1954), Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (1489), and Gustave Garrigou (1884). After him are Henri Farman (1874), Jacques Ellul (1912), César, Duke of Vendôme (1594), Valentin Haüy (1745), Marie Anne Lenormand (1772), and Tristan Corbière (1845).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Charles Koechlin ranks 58. Before him are André Campra (1660), Vincent d'Indy (1851), Gustave Charpentier (1860), Louis Marchand (1669), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), and Michel Richard Delalande (1657). After him are Georges Delerue (1925), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), and Georg Muffat (1653).

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