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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 87,035 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean Guillou is the 809th most popular composer (down from 688th in 2019), the 3,069th most popular biography from France (down from 2,657th in 2019) and the 118th most popular French Composer.

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  • 87k

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  • 51.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jean Guillou ranks 809 out of 1,216Before him are Allan Pettersson, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Maurice Emmanuel, Leó Weiner, Johan Agrell, and Julius Röntgen. After him are Nicolas Isouard, Cesare Pugni, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Nicola Fago, and Charles Villiers Stanford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jean Guillou ranks 237Before him are Svatopluk Pluskal, Gary Snyder, Miodrag Bulatović, Borislav Pekić, Vilmos Zsigmond, and Paul Veyne. After him are Roy E. Disney, Paul Poupard, Bora Kostić, Anne Francis, Paul Mazursky, and Jean Vincent. Among people deceased in 2019, Jean Guillou ranks 179Before him are Seymour Cassel, Don Alden Adams, Charles Gérard, Margarita Salas, David Koch, and Camilo Sesto. After him are Lyndon LaRouche, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Scott Walker, Sid Haig, Pim Verbeek, and Katherine Helmond.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Guillou ranks 3,069 out of 6,011Before him are Paul Veyne (1930), Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763), Bernard de Montfaucon (1655), Jean-François Regnard (1655), Jacques Duclos (1896), and Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955). After him are Bafétimbi Gomis (1985), Firmin Abauzit (1679), Bulle Ogier (1939), Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), Marc Ferro (1924), and Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Jean Guillou ranks 118Before him are Déodat de Séverac (1872), Antoine Brumel (1460), Claude Balbastre (1724), André Caplet (1878), Augusta Holmès (1847), and Maurice Emmanuel (1862). After him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Henri Tomasi (1901), Claudin de Sermisy (1490), and Guy Ropartz (1864).