COMPOSER

Jean Guillou

1930 - 2019

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Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Principle Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music focused on the organ, as an improviser, and as an adviser to organ builders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Guillou has received more than 92,099 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Guillou is the 804th most popular composer (up from 808th in 2019), the 3,187th most popular biography from France (down from 3,058th in 2019) and the 113th most popular French Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 92k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jean Guillou ranks 804 out of 1,451. Before him are Koji Kondo, Johann Caspar Kerll, Julius Röntgen, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Isaak Dunayevsky, and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. After him are Cornelius Gurlitt, Frank Bridge, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Gaspar Cassadó, Louis Andriessen, and Alexander Alyabyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jean Guillou ranks 244. Before him are Jim Rohn, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Juan Gelman, Josef Hügi, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, and Miodrag Bulatović. After him are Gregory Corso, Orvar Bergmark, Paul Poupard, Ahmed Osman, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, and Julián Herranz Casado. Among people deceased in 2019, Jean Guillou ranks 189. Before him are Ross Perot, Syd Mead, Roland Matthes, Peggy Lipton, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, and Negasso Gidada. After him are José José, Robert Evans, Sadako Ogata, Pal Benko, Scott Walker, and Rudi Gutendorf.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Guillou ranks 3,187 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques-André Naigeon (1738), Henri Meilhac (1831), Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Bernard Morel (1925), Marc Ferro (1924), and Adolphe Pégoud (1889). After him are J. F. Oberlin (1740), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Samir Nasri (1987), Peter Julian Eymard (1811), Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles (1767), and Charles Blanc (1813).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Jean Guillou ranks 113. Before him are Louise Bertin (1805), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), Claudin de Sermisy (1490), George Onslow (1784), Claude Le Jeune (1528), and Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200). After him are Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), Michel Blavet (1700), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Robert Cambert (1628), Alfred Bruneau (1857), and André Caplet (1878).

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