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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 54,086 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély is the 812th most popular composer (up from 872nd in 2019), the 3,075th most popular biography from France (up from 3,152nd in 2019) and the 119th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 812 out of 1,216. Before him are Leó Weiner, Johan Agrell, Julius Röntgen, Jean Guillou, Nicolas Isouard, and Cesare Pugni. After him are Aimeric de Peguilhan, Nicola Fago, Charles Villiers Stanford, Jan Václav Voříšek, Heino Eller, and Andrzej Panufnik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 44. Before him are Debendranath Tagore, George Frederic Watts, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georg Herwegh, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, and Wilhelm Griesinger. After him are Branwell Brontë, Joseph Poelaert, Adolphe Alphand, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, and Braxton Bragg. Among people deceased in 1869, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 31. Before him are Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Alexandrine Tinné, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Juraj Haulik, and Louis Moreau Gottschalk. After him are Juan Almonte, Jean René Constant Quoy, Vladimir Odoyevsky, Giulia Grisi, Johann Georg von Hahn, and Adolphe Niel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 3,075 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Guillou (1930), Bafétimbi Gomis (1985), Firmin Abauzit (1679), Bulle Ogier (1939), Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), and Marc Ferro (1924). After him are Étienne Carjat (1828), William Waddington (1826), Marie-Joseph Lagrange (1855), Daniel Guérin (1904), Pierre Fatou (1878), and Guy Marchand (1937).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély ranks 119. Before him are Antoine Brumel (1460), Claude Balbastre (1724), André Caplet (1878), Augusta Holmès (1847), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), and Jean Guillou (1930). After him are Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Henri Tomasi (1901), Claudin de Sermisy (1490), Guy Ropartz (1864), and Alfred Bruneau (1857).

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