COMPOSER

Jean Langlais

1907 - 1991

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Jean François-Hyacinthe Langlais III (15 February 1907 – 8 May 1991) was a French composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Langlais has received more than 101,504 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean Langlais is the 1,079th most popular composer (down from 1,027th in 2019), the 4,144th most popular biography from France (down from 3,720th in 2019) and the 149th most popular French Composer.

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  • 49.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jean Langlais ranks 1,079 out of 1,451. Before him are Tristan Murail, Arif Malikov, Emilio Arrieta, Leonard Rosenman, Jean Gilbert, and Sylvano Bussotti. After him are Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Henri Pousseur, Toivo Kuula, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Carter Burwell, and Johann Nicolaus Bach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Jean Langlais ranks 238. Before him are Ernst Albrecht, Alexander Knox, István Bárány, Georg Braun, Jacques Roumain, and Roderich Menzel. After him are Yevgeniy Abalakov, Adalbert Steiner, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, Sofia Yablonska, Sanya Dharmasakti, and Chico Landi. Among people deceased in 1991, Jean Langlais ranks 169. Before him are Tadashi Imai, Steve Marriott, Ole Beich, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, György Szűcs, and Olga Spessivtseva. After him are Pierre Brunet, Ellen Braumüller, Alfred Eisenbeisser, John McIntire, Boris Papandopulo, and Eva Le Gallienne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Langlais ranks 4,144 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Marc Guillou (1945), Jean Poiret (1926), Louis Saha (1978), François Heutte (1938), Philippe Rousselot (1945), and Marie-Anne Chazel (1951). After him are Isidore Pils (1813), Christophe Gans (1960), Christine Delphy (1941), Stanislas Julien (1797), Jean-Luc Ettori (1955), and Pierre Omidyar (1967).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Jean Langlais ranks 149. Before him are Victor Massé (1822), Antoine Duhamel (1925), Philippe Sarde (1948), Félicien David (1810), François Sudre (1787), and Tristan Murail (1947). After him are Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729), Jean Barraqué (1928), Ernest Reyer (1823), Philippe Verdelot (null), Betsy Jolas (1926), and Robert Planquette (1848).

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