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Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély

1817 - 1869

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Louis-James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (13 November 1817 – 31 December 1869) was a French organist and composer. He played a major role in the development of the French symphonic organ style and was closely associated with the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, inaugurating many new Cavaillé-Coll organs. His playing was virtuosic, and as a performer, he was rated above eminent contemporaries including César Franck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély has received more than 55,097 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély is the 952nd most popular composer (down from 811th in 2019), the 3,666th most popular biography from France (down from 3,064th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 952 out of 1,451. Before him are Arnold Mendelssohn, Francesco Araja, Felice Anerio, Napoléon Henri Reber, Chiquinha Gonzaga, and Italo Montemezzi. After him are Guy Ropartz, Josip Runjanin, R. Murray Schafer, Felix Draeseke, Johann Adolf Scheibe, and Adolf Bernhard Marx.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 54. Before him are Francesco de Sanctis, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Georgi Pulevski, and Braxton Bragg. After him are Adolphe Yvon, Édouard Deldevez, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Konstantin Aksakov, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez. Among people deceased in 1869, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 35. Before him are Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Julian Fontana, Juraj Haulik, Juan Almonte, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Adolphe Niel. After him are Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Ōmura Masujirō, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Johann Georg von Hahn, and Otto Jahn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 3,666 out of 6,770. Before him are Gérard Larcher (1949), Guillaume Musso (1974), Claude Dauphin (1903), Pierre Montet (1885), Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury (1914), and François Isaac de Rivaz (1752). After him are François Bordes (1919), Theo Hernandez (1997), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Guy Ropartz (1864), Claude Fleury (1640), and Gaston Rébuffat (1921).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 133. Before him are Philippe Gaubert (1879), Henri Rabaud (1873), François Francoeur (1698), Gérard Grisey (1946), Baude Cordier (1364), and Napoléon Henri Reber (1807). After him are Guy Ropartz (1864), Henri Sauguet (1901), Nicolas Dalayrac (1753), Édouard Deldevez (1817), Jean Mouton (1459), and Bruno Coulais (1954).

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