COMPOSER

Edmond Audran

1840 - 1901

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Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas. After beginning his career in Marseille as an organist, Audran composed religious music and began to write works for the stage in the 1860s and 1870s. Among these, Le grand mogol (1877) was the most popular and was later revived in Paris, London and New York. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond Audran has received more than 38,663 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond Audran is the 678th most popular composer (up from 752nd in 2019), the 2,791st most popular biography from France (up from 2,926th in 2019) and the 97th most popular French Composer.

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  • 20

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  • 10.28

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  • 1.40

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Edmond Audran ranks 678 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Joseph Abert, Sergei Lyapunov, Louise Farrenc, Elfrida Andrée, Ferdinand David, and Franchinus Gaffurius. After him are Joseph Szigeti, Leó Weiner, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Giovanni Battista Vitali, and Eduard Tubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Edmond Audran ranks 43. Before him are George Smith, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Shibusawa Eiichi, José Manuel Balmaceda, Akaki Tsereteli, and Thomas Nast. After him are Gall, Édouard André, Gabriel von Max, William Graham Sumner, Dmitry Pisarev, and Friedrich Kohlrausch. Among people deceased in 1901, Edmond Audran ranks 40. Before him are Leopoldo Alas, Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, Frederic W. H. Myers, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Leon Czolgosz, and Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria. After him are Oreste Baratieri, John Kemp Starley, Aleksander Gierymski, Prince Henri of Orléans, Cornelius Gurlitt, and Jacob Georg Agardh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond Audran ranks 2,791 out of 6,770. Before him are Hippolyte Bayard (1801), Ernest Duchesne (1874), Christian Marquand (1927), Louise Diane d'Orléans (1716), Michel Jazy (1936), and Christian Louboutin (1964). After him are André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Michael Baius (1513), Catulle Mendès (1841), François Séverin Marceau (1769), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), and Odo of Bayeux (1036).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Edmond Audran ranks 97. Before him are Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), Ferdinand Hérold (1791), Charles Lecocq (1832), Antoine François Marmontel (1816), Antoine Forqueray (1671), and Louise Farrenc (1804). After him are Antoine Brumel (1460), Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789), Michel Corrette (1707), Nicolas Gombert (1495), Charles Tournemire (1870), and Petrus de Cruce (1300).

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