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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 259,917 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Léonin is the 140th most popular composer (up from 146th in 2019), the 621st most popular biography from France (up from 631st in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Composer.

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

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  • 41

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  • 9.61

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  • 2.55

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Léonin ranks 140 out of 1,216. Before him are Iannis Xenakis, César Cui, Emmerich Kálmán, Pierre Boulez, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, and Michel Legrand. After him are Fanny Mendelssohn, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Anna Maria Mozart, Gregorio Allegri, Daniel Auber, and Henry Mancini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1135, Léonin ranks 2. Before him is Chrétien de Troyes. After him are Joachim of Fiore, Bernart de Ventadorn, Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, Inge I of Norway, Walter of Châtillon, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Judith of Thuringia, Herman IV, Margrave of Baden, and William I, Count of Boulogne. Among people deceased in 1201, Léonin ranks 1. After him are Agnes of Merania, Absalon, Theobald III, Count of Champagne, Bohemond III of Antioch, Igor Svyatoslavich, Constance, Duchess of Brittany, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Walter of Châtillon, Elena Asenina of Bulgaria, Bolesław I the Tall, and Gerald of Wales.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léonin ranks 621 out of 6,011. Before him are France Gall (1947), Michel Legrand (1932), Peter Waldo (1140), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), Paul Claudel (1868), and Hugh the Great (898). After him are Yolande de Polastron (1749), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Juliette Gréco (1927), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Camille Flammarion (1842).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Léonin ranks 25. Before him are Arthur Honegger (1892), Pérotin (1160), Paul Dukas (1865), Maurice Jarre (1924), Pierre Boulez (1925), and Michel Legrand (1932). After him are Daniel Auber (1782), Darius Milhaud (1892), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), Édouard Lalo (1823), Marin Marais (1656), and Pauline Viardot (1821).

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