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François-Adrien Boieldieu

1775 - 1834

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François-Adrien Boieldieu (pronounced [fʁɑ̃.swa a.dʁi.(j)ɛ̃ bɔ.jɛl.djø], also [bwa(.ɛ)l.djø]) (16 December 1775 – 8 October 1834) was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart". His date of birth was given as December 15 by his biographer Lucien Augé de Lassus (b. 1841) and as September 15 by some local press releases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François-Adrien Boieldieu has received more than 102,664 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). François-Adrien Boieldieu is the 326th most popular composer (down from 311th in 2019), the 1,428th most popular biography from France (down from 1,357th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Composer.

François-Adrien Boieldieu is most famous for composing the opera La Dame Blanche, which was first performed in 1825.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, François-Adrien Boieldieu ranks 326 out of 1,216Before him are Franco Alfano, Jacobus Gallus, Franz Benda, Louis-Claude Daquin, Sergei Taneyev, and Vincent d'Indy. After him are Antonio Lotti, Pierre De Geyter, Johann Joseph Fux, Luca Marenzio, Henri Dutilleux, and Giovanni Bononcini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, François-Adrien Boieldieu ranks 15Before him are Ching Shih, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Étienne-Louis Malus, and Adam Albert von Neipperg. After him are Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Matthew Lewis, Farkas Bolyai, Bernhard Crusell, Manuel García, and Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. Among people deceased in 1834, François-Adrien Boieldieu ranks 13Before him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Alois Senefelder, William Carey, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Husein Gradaščević. After him are Jacques Balmat, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, James Weddell, Giovanni Aldini, and Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium.

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In France

Among people born in France, François-Adrien Boieldieu ranks 1,428 out of 6,011Before him are Édouard Herriot (1872), Walter Krüger (1890), Jacqueline Boyer (1941), Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), and Vincent d'Indy (1851). After him are Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (1711), Marie de Rohan (1600), Valentin Haüy (1745), Marie Anne de Mailly (1717), Victorinus (300), and Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, François-Adrien Boieldieu ranks 52Before him are Georges Auric (1899), Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766), André Campra (1660), Cécile Chaminade (1857), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), and Vincent d'Indy (1851). After him are Henri Dutilleux (1916), Marcel Dupré (1886), Louis Marchand (1669), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Georg Muffat (1653), and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689).