COMPOSER

Charles Tournemire

1870 - 1939

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Charles Arnould Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphonies (one of them choral), four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Tournemire has received more than 90,394 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Charles Tournemire is the 736th most popular composer, the 3,010th most popular biography from France (down from 2,887th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular French Composer.

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  • 53.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Tournemire ranks 736 out of 1,451. Before him are Paul Ben-Haim, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Rued Langgaard, Arthur Sullivan, Matvey Blanter, and Hans Rott. After him are Petrus de Cruce, Goffredo Petrassi, Luigi Denza, Cesare Pugni, Jerome Kern, and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Charles Tournemire ranks 88. Before him are Dirk Jan de Geer, Enric Prat de la Riba, Dadasaheb Phalke, Motobu Chōki, John Boland, and Amadeo Giannini. After him are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Francisco S. Carvajal, Édouard Le Roy, Albert Sechehaye, Nikolay Lossky, and Annie Londonderry. Among people deceased in 1939, Charles Tournemire ranks 76. Before him are Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Max Skladanowsky, Ma Rainey, Stjepan Sarkotić, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, and Francisco León de la Barra. After him are Patriarch Miron of Romania, Hedwiga Rosenbaumová, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Zinaida Yusupova, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, and Fyodor Raskolnikov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Tournemire ranks 3,010 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Germot (1882), Henri Vidal (1919), Auguste Vaillant (1861), Armand Louis de Gontaut (1747), István Nyers (1924), and André Glucksmann (1937). After him are Petrus de Cruce (1300), Didier Auriol (1958), Brigitte Fontaine (1939), Manuel Amoros (1962), Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (1282), and Paul Lévy (1886).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Charles Tournemire ranks 102. Before him are Louise Farrenc (1804), Edmond Audran (1840), Antoine Brumel (1460), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Michel Corrette (1707), and Nicolas Gombert (1495). After him are Petrus de Cruce (1300), Claude Balbastre (1724), Benjamin Godard (1849), Augusta Holmès (1847), Louise Bertin (1805), and Maurice Emmanuel (1862).

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