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Marin Marais

1656 - 1728

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Marin Marais (French: [maʁɛ̃ maʁɛ]; 31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for six months. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marin Marais has received more than 312,065 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Marin Marais is the 158th most popular composer (down from 148th in 2019), the 718th most popular biography from France (down from 643rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Composer.

Marin Marais is most famous for his compositions for the viola da gamba.

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  • 64.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Marin Marais ranks 158 out of 1,216. Before him are Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Édouard Lalo, Ottorino Respighi, Vincenzo Galilei, Gustav Holst, and Giovanni Paisiello. After him are Vittorio Monti, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Francesco Cavalli, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Ferruccio Busoni, and John Barry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Marin Marais ranks 3. Before him are Edmond Halley and Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark. After him are Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Robert de Cotte, Guillaume Dubois, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Ferdinand de Marsin. Among people deceased in 1728, Marin Marais ranks 2. Before him is Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia. After him are Anne Marie d'Orléans, Christian Thomasius, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg, Agostino Steffani, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Davit Bek.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marin Marais ranks 718 out of 6,011. Before him are François Darlan (1881), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Georges Sorel (1847), Raoul Dufy (1877), and Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736). After him are Jean Giraud (1938), Robert Doisneau (1912), Louis Le Vau (1612), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Raymond Aron (1905), and Pope Stephen IX (1020).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Marin Marais ranks 30. Before him are Michel Legrand (1932), Léonin (1135), Daniel Auber (1782), Darius Milhaud (1892), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), and Édouard Lalo (1823). After him are Pauline Viardot (1821), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Francis Lai (1932), Ernest Chausson (1855), Charles-Marie Widor (1844), and Ambroise Thomas (1811).

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