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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 85,098 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Charles Tournemire is the 737th most popular composer (down from 717th in 2019), the 2,896th most popular biography from France (down from 2,768th in 2019) and the 106th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Tournemire ranks 737 out of 1,216Before him are Henri Rabaud, Antonio Bertali, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Josef Tal, and Keiko Abe. After him are Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Alexander Spendiaryan, Joseph Marx, Heinrich Scheidemann, Helmut Walcha, and Armando Trovajoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Charles Tournemire ranks 86Before him are Ignacio Zuloaga, John Paine, Osachi Hamaguchi, Enric Prat de la Riba, Annie Londonderry, and Hilaire Belloc. After him are Francisco S. Carvajal, John Boland, Amadeo Giannini, Joseph Strauss, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, and Albert Sechehaye. Among people deceased in 1939, Charles Tournemire ranks 71Before him are Max Skladanowsky, Kyōka Izumi, Konstantin Somov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Henri Le Sidaner, and Francisco León de la Barra. After him are Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Ottó Bláthy, Benjamin Tucker, Levon Mirzoyan, and Alice Brady.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Tournemire ranks 2,896 out of 6,011Before him are Marcel Griaule (1898), Eucherius of Lyon (380), Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (945), Pascal Bruckner (1948), Édouard Detaille (1848), and Henri Laurens (1885). After him are Dominique Lapierre (1931), Favorinus (85), Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Aurore Clément (1945), and Clément Juglar (1819).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Charles Tournemire ranks 106Before 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). After him are Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Louise Farrenc (1804), Edmond Audran (1840), Albéric Magnard (1865), Michel Blavet (1700), and Déodat de Séverac (1872).