COMPOSER

Léonin

1135 - 1201

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Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; fl. 1135s–1201) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léonin has received more than 278,715 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Léonin is the 167th most popular composer (down from 140th in 2019), the 786th most popular biography from France (down from 620th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Composer.

Léonin is most famous for being the first composer to write polyphonic music.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Léonin ranks 167 out of 1,451. Before him are Siegfried Wagner, Giovanni Paisiello, Max Reger, Bohuslav Martinů, Vittorio Monti, and Reinhold Glière. After him are Pietro Locatelli, Baldassare Galuppi, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Henry Mancini, Hugo Wolf, and Amilcare Ponchielli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1135, Léonin ranks 3. Before him are Chrétien de Troyes, and Joachim of Fiore. After him are Bernart de Ventadorn, Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, Inge I of Norway, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Walter of Châtillon, Judith of Thuringia, Herman IV, Margrave of Baden, William of the White Hands, and William I, Count of Boulogne. Among people deceased in 1201, Léonin ranks 1. After him are Absalon, Agnes of Merania, Theobald III, Count of Champagne, Igor Svyatoslavich, Bohemond III of Antioch, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Constance, Duchess of Brittany, Bolesław I the Tall, Irene Komnene Doukaina, Walter of Châtillon, and Elena Asenina of Bulgaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léonin ranks 786 out of 6,770. Before him are Margaret of Provence (1221), Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932), Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789), Louis de Montfort (1673), Émile Loubet (1838), and Sebastian Brant (1458). After him are Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704), Jules Grévy (1807), Joanna of Bourbon (1338), Georges Rouault (1871), Robert Curthose (1054), and Gaston Doumergue (1863).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Léonin ranks 30. Before him are Édouard Lalo (1823), Paul Dukas (1865), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), Darius Milhaud (1892), Pierre Boulez (1925), and Michel Legrand (1932). After him are Francis Lai (1932), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Pauline Viardot (1821), Lili Boulanger (1893), Ernest Chausson (1855), and Charles-Marie Widor (1844).

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