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Paul Taffanel

1844 - 1908

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Claude-Paul Taffanel (16 September 1844 – 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Taffanel has received more than 84,071 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Taffanel is the 1,012th most popular composer (down from 992nd in 2019), the 3,878th most popular biography from France (down from 3,579th in 2019) and the 142nd most popular French Composer.

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  • 57.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Paul Taffanel ranks 1,012 out of 1,451. Before him are Édouard Colonne, Alessandro Grandi, Gottfried August Homilius, Rebecca Clarke, Percy Faith, and Balys Dvarionas. After him are Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Emil von Sauer, Victor Massé, Knut Nystedt, Brian Ferneyhough, and Julius Reubke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Paul Taffanel ranks 76. Before him are William Wilson, Pyotr Tkachev, James Guillaume, Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, Anna Lea Merritt, and Arturo Soria y Mata. After him are Robert Themptander, Detlev von Liliencron, Alois Riehl, Dimitrios Rallis, Mutsu Munemitsu, and Camille Lemonnier. Among people deceased in 1908, Paul Taffanel ranks 67. Before him are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg, Jacob W. Davis, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Heinrich Hübschmann, Friedrich von Esmarch, and Friedrich Paulsen. After him are Simo Matavulj, Lester Allan Pelton, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Ernest Fenollosa, Milovan Glišić, and Carl Friedrich Schmidt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Taffanel ranks 3,878 out of 6,770. Before him are Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), Philippe Léotard (1940), Charles Pasqua (1927), Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933), Jean de Brébeuf (1593), and Pierre Poujade (1920). After him are Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817), Michael Vartan (1968), Charles Laval (1862), Georgette Leblanc (1869), Virginie Despentes (1969), and Lambert I of Nantes (796).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Paul Taffanel ranks 142. Before him are Nicolas Dalayrac (1753), Édouard Deldevez (1817), Jean Mouton (1459), Bruno Coulais (1954), André Gedalge (1856), and Édouard Colonne (1838). After him are Victor Massé (1822), Antoine Duhamel (1925), Philippe Sarde (1948), Félicien David (1810), François Sudre (1787), and Tristan Murail (1947).

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