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Joseph Canteloube

1879 - 1957

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Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (French pronunciation: [maʁi ʒozɛf kɑ̃tlub də malaʁɛ]; 21 October 1879 – 4 November 1957) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region, Chants d'Auvergne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Canteloube has received more than 117,363 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 22 in 2019). Joseph Canteloube is the 871st most popular composer (down from 667th in 2019), the 3,438th most popular biography from France (down from 2,680th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Joseph Canteloube ranks 871 out of 1,451Before him are Nikolai Tcherepnin, Filippo Marchetti, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Antonín Vranický, August Enna, and Valentino Fioravanti. After him are Emil von Reznicek, Nikolai Zaremba, Friedrich Cerha, Leo Fall, Zacharia Paliashvili, and Per Nørgård.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Joseph Canteloube ranks 118Before him are Shinobu Ishihara, Alan Gardiner, Friedrich Christiansen, Ion G. Duca, Clemente Micara, and Wallace Stevens. After him are Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Alfred Abel, Beals Wright, Philippe Gaubert, and Maud Menten. Among people deceased in 1957, Joseph Canteloube ranks 124Before him are Ferenc Hirzer, Maurice Peeters, Kiyoshi Shiga, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Harrison Ford, and Peter Freuchen. After him are Bugs Moran, Frank País, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Augusto Genina, Ralph Benatzky, and John Sealy Townsend.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Canteloube ranks 3,438 out of 6,770Before him are Régine Pernoud (1909), Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), Diana Vreeland (1903), Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), Evgeny Paton (1870), and Tignous (1957). After him are Isaac René Guy le Chapelier (1754), Harry Schell (1921), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Albinus of Angers (470), Isaac de Benserade (1613), and Henry Becque (1837).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Joseph Canteloube ranks 123Before him are Robert Cambert (1628), Alfred Bruneau (1857), André Caplet (1878), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), Henri-Montan Berton (1767), and Déodat de Séverac (1872). After him are Henri Tomasi (1901), Albéric Magnard (1865), Loyset Compère (1440), Philippe Gaubert (1879), Henri Rabaud (1873), and François Francoeur (1698).