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Mélanie Bonis

1858 - 1937

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Mélanie Hélène "Mel" Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937) was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mélanie Bonis has received more than 120,288 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mélanie Bonis is the 461st most popular composer (up from 692nd in 2019), the 1,985th most popular biography from France (up from 2,757th in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Composer.

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  • 57.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mélanie Bonis ranks 461 out of 1,451. Before her are Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Christoph Graupner, Johann Gottfried Walther, Franck Pourcel, Georgy Sviridov, and Hans Pfitzner. After her are Gaspar Sanz, Giovanni Pacini, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Jean Absil, and Vítězslav Novák.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Mélanie Bonis ranks 51. Before her are Fernand Khnopff, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Bonar Law, Oldfield Thomas, Albrecht Penck, and Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich. After her are Caran d'Ache, Roland Bonaparte, Ethel Smyth, Pandita Ramabai, John L. Sullivan, and Joséphin Péladan. Among people deceased in 1937, Mélanie Bonis ranks 56. Before her are Takeo Wakabayashi, Diana Abgar, Max Adler, Attila József, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, and Akhmet Baitursynov. After her are Max von Gallwitz, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Iona Yakir, Elihu Thomson, and Ida Dalser.

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In France

Among people born in France, Mélanie Bonis ranks 1,985 out of 6,770. Before her are Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Hervé Renard (1968), Philippe Honoré (1941), Claude Sautet (1924), Lothair II of Italy (1000), and Jacques-François Blondel (1705). After her are Robert de Boron (1110), Jean-Marc Ayrault (1950), Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712), Zénaïde Bonaparte (1801), Jean Goujon (1510), and Jean II Le Maingre (1366).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Mélanie Bonis ranks 69. Before her are Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), Georg Muffat (1653), André Jolivet (1905), Étienne Méhul (1763), Louis Durey (1888), and Franck Pourcel (1913). After her are Antoine Busnois (1430), Théodore Dubois (1837), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Maurice Duruflé (1902), Florent Schmitt (1870), and Alexandre Desplat (1961).

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