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Georges Delerue

1925 - 1992

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Georges Delerue (12 March 1925 – 20 March 1992) was a French composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. Delerue won numerous important film music awards, including an Academy Award for A Little Romance (1980), three César Awards (1979, 1980, 1981), two ASCAP Awards (1988, 1990), and one Gemini Award for Sword of Gideon (1987). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Delerue has received more than 308,382 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Georges Delerue is the 382nd most popular composer (up from 391st in 2019), the 1,732nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,673rd in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Composer.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Georges Delerue ranks 382 out of 1,451. Before him are Hans Richter, Carl Heinrich Graun, Rodion Shchedrin, Jacques Arcadelt, Toru Takemitsu, and Cole Porter. After him are Johann Joseph Fux, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Ferenc Erkel, John Koukouzelis, and Mieczysław Weinberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Georges Delerue ranks 101. Before him are Sammy Davis Jr., Martin Rodbell, Honor Blackman, Uzi Narkiss, Tofiq Bahramov, and John Pople. After him are Ernesto Cardenal, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Lepa Radić, Robert Hardy, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and Pierre Bérégovoy. Among people deceased in 1992, Georges Delerue ranks 58. Before him are Peter D. Mitchell, Lina Bo Bardi, Larbi Benbarek, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Takeshi Inoue, and Maria Reiter. After him are Nureddin al-Atassi, Koča Popović, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Judith Anderson, and José Ferrer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Delerue ranks 1,732 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Barnave (1761), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Alix of France (1151), and Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830). After him are Thierry Mugler (1948), Beatrice of Provence (1229), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Théo Sarapo (1936), Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1695), and Claude Garamond (1499).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Georges Delerue ranks 59. Before him are Vincent d'Indy (1851), Gustave Charpentier (1860), Louis Marchand (1669), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), and Charles Koechlin (1867). After him are Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), Georg Muffat (1653), and André Jolivet (1905).

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