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Georges Prêtre

1924 - 2017

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Georges Prêtre (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ pʁɛːtʁ]; 14 August 1924 – 4 January 2017) was a French orchestral and opera conductor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Prêtre has received more than 126,782 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Prêtre is the 203rd most popular musician (up from 226th in 2019), the 1,169th most popular biography from France (up from 1,275th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Musician.

Georges Prêtre is most famous for his conducting of the Requiem Mass in Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris, on April 8, 1975.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.50

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Georges Prêtre ranks 203 out of 2,662Before him are Gidon Kremer, Jaco Pastorius, Violeta Parra, Rory Gallagher, Giovanni Battista Viotti, and Maria João Pires. After him are Joe Satriani, Nelson Freire, Pete Seeger, Jean-Marie Leclair, Dinu Lipatti, and Klaus Nomi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Georges Prêtre ranks 52Before him are Guy Williams, Luigi Nono, Ahmadou Ahidjo, Madame Nhu, Lee Iacocca, and Vladimir Kryuchkov. After him are Giovanni Sartori, Bulat Okudzhava, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Eduardo Chillida, Roberto Eduardo Viola, and Rosamunde Pilcher. Among people deceased in 2017, Georges Prêtre ranks 57Before him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Powers Boothe, Jonathan Demme, George Andrew Olah, Harry Dean Stanton, and Adam West. After him are Giovanni Sartori, Oliver Smithies, Derek Walcott, Pierre Bergé, Jacque Fresco, and Michael Nyqvist.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Prêtre ranks 1,169 out of 6,011Before him are Pepin II of Aquitaine (823), Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), Albert Roussel (1869), Flora Tristan (1803), Suzanne Lenglen (1899), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737). After him are Maurice Duverger (1917), Jacques Ibert (1890), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Jean Mabillon (1632), James II of Majorca (1243), and Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782).

Among MUSICIANS In France

Among musicians born in France, Georges Prêtre ranks 9Before him are Thomas Bangalter (1), Paul Mauriat (1925), Nadia Boulanger (1887), David Guetta (1967), Arnaut Daniel (1150), and Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813). After him are Jean-Marie Leclair (1697), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), Louis Vierne (1870), Émile Waldteufel (1837), Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922), and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665).