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Paul Dukas

French composer

1865 - 1935

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His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Dukas is the 150th most popular composer (down from 144th in 2024), the 664th most popular biography from France (up from 680th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Composer.

Paul Dukas is most famous for his orchestral work "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" which was based on a poem by Goethe.

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Paul Dukas ranks #664 among 7,658 people in Pantheon born in France, inside the top 9% of that group.

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Paul Dukas's biography appears in 48 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 90% of all Composers.

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Among Composers

Among composers, Paul Dukas ranks 150 out of 1,493. Before him are André Grétry, Johannes Ockeghem, Gregorio Allegri, Alfred Newman, Darius Milhaud, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. After him are Christopher Hogwood, Marin Marais, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, François-Joseph Gossec, Léonin, and Ottorino Respighi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Paul Dukas ranks 17. Before him are W. B. Yeats, Carl Nielsen, Alexander Glazunov, Suzanne Valadon, Sven Hedin, and Wilfrid Voynich. After him are Philipp Scheidemann, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Jacques Hadamard, John Mott, and Félix Vallotton. Among people deceased in 1935, Paul Dukas ranks 20. Before him are Astrid of Sweden, Charles Richet, André Citroën, Henri Barbusse, Carlos Gardel, and Hugo de Vries. After him are Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Jane Addams, Komitas, Josef Suk, and Max Liebermann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Dukas ranks 664 out of 7,658. Before him are Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Syagrius (430), Rudolph of France (890), Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), and Johnny Hallyday (1943). After him are Alain Resnais (1922), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), François-André Danican Philidor (1726), Anne of Foix-Candale (1484), André the Giant (1946), and Maurice Utrillo (1883).

Among Composers In France

Among composers born in France, Paul Dukas ranks 27. Before him are Edgard Varèse (1883), Maurice Jarre (1924), Daniel Auber (1782), Édouard Lalo (1823), Pérotin (1160), and Darius Milhaud (1892). After him are Marin Marais (1656), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), Léonin (1135), Michel Legrand (1932), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775), and Charles-Marie Widor (1844).

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