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Fromental Halévy

1799 - 1862

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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (French: [fʁɔmɑ̃tal alevi]; 27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fromental Halévy has received more than 181,080 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Fromental Halévy is the 245th most popular composer (up from 282nd in 2019), the 1,131st most popular biography from France (up from 1,223rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Composer.

Fromental Halévy is most famous for his opera La Juive, which is a romantic tragedy.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Fromental Halévy ranks 245 out of 1,216Before him are Francesco Geminiani, Luigi Nono, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ion Ivanovici, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Carl Stamitz. After him are Anton Arensky, Thomas Tallis, Johann Christoph Bach, Ignaz Pleyel, Friedrich Kuhlau, and Franz Xaver Gruber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Fromental Halévy ranks 10Before him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Mary Anning, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Karl Bryullov, and William Lassell. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby. Among people deceased in 1862, Fromental Halévy ranks 10Before him are John Tyler, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Bahadur Shah Zafar, James Clark Ross, Božena Němcová, and Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz. After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Karl Nesselrode, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Elizabeth Siddal, Henry Thomas Buckle, and Carlos Antonio López.

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In France

Among people born in France, Fromental Halévy ranks 1,131 out of 6,011Before him are Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Aimery of Cyprus (1172), Odile of Alsace (662), Theudebert II (585), Pierre Lescot (1515), and Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803). After him are Capucine (1928), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Yves Tanguy (1900), Victor, Prince Napoléon (1862), Joël Robuchon (1945), and André Maginot (1877).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Fromental Halévy ranks 40Before him are Ernest Chausson (1855), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), Ambroise Thomas (1811), Lili Boulanger (1893), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), and Emmanuel Chabrier (1841). After him are Albert Roussel (1869), Jacques Ibert (1890), Jaufre Rudel (1125), Clément Janequin (1485), Gustave Charpentier (1860), and Georges Auric (1899).