COMPOSER

Gustave Charpentier

1860 - 1956

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Gustave Charpentier (French: [ɡystav ʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Charpentier has received more than 93,858 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Charpentier is the 330th most popular composer (down from 295th in 2019), the 1,512th most popular biography from France (down from 1,329th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Composer.

Gustave Charpentier is most famous for his opera "Louise."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gustave Charpentier ranks 330 out of 1,451Before him are Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Johann Adam Reincken, Ignaz Pleyel, John Dunstaple, Gustav Leonhardt, and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel. After him are Julius Fučík, Heinrich Isaac, Ferdinando Carulli, Michael Nyman, Cipriano de Rore, and Christian Gottlob Neefe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Gustave Charpentier ranks 38Before him are René Lalique, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Isaac Levitan, Marianne von Werefkin, Vito Volterra, and Mercedes of Orléans. After him are James McKeen Cattell, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Otto Jespersen, Jules Laforgue, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, and Waldemar Haffkine. Among people deceased in 1956, Gustave Charpentier ranks 44Before him are Giovanni Papini, Jan Łukasiewicz, Mistinguett, Alfredo Ferrari, Alben W. Barkley, and Mahmud Barzanji. After him are Gianpiero Combi, Walter Sydney Adams, Art Tatum, Lyonel Feininger, Savielly Tartakower, and Erich Kleiber.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Charpentier ranks 1,512 out of 6,770Before him are Rose Bertin (1747), Peter Faber (1506), Paul Gachet (1828), Fredegund (545), Humbert of Silva Candida (1000), and Henri Giffard (1825). After him are Henri Cartan (1904), Guillaume Budé (1467), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Odo of Cluny (878), Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560), and Adhemar of Le Puy (1055).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Gustave Charpentier ranks 54Before him are François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775), Henri Dutilleux (1916), Clément Janequin (1485), Cécile Chaminade (1857), André Campra (1660), and Vincent d'Indy (1851). After him are Louis Marchand (1669), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Charles Koechlin (1867), Georges Delerue (1925), and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689).