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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

1729 - 1817

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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ((1729-10-17)17 October 1729 – (1817-01-14)14 January 1817) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical genre, the opéra comique, laying a path for other French composers such as François-Adrien Boieldieu, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, and Jules Massenet in this genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny has received more than 37,220 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny is the 1,078th most popular composer (down from 923rd in 2019), the 3,903rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,338th in 2019) and the 144th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 1,078 out of 1,216. Before him are Julius Benedict, Édouard Colonne, Kalevi Aho, Louise Bertin, František Škroup, and Shlomo Mintz. After him are Arturo Márquez, Tofig Guliyev, Vasily Safonov, Clint Mansell, Halfdan Kjerulf, and Alexander Moyzes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 27. Before him are Anders Chydenius, Michael von Melas, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Giuseppe Parini, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, and Michael Denis. After him are Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, Ivan Argunov, Clara Reeve, Fyodor Volkov, Josiah Bartlett, and Thomas Percy. Among people deceased in 1817, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 34. Before him are Joseph von Sonnenfels, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, William Gregor, Jean-Sifrein Maury, and Martín Javier Mina y Larrea. After him are Anna Maria Lenngren, Pál Kitaibel, and Juan Meléndez Valdés.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 3,903 out of 6,011. Before him are Yves Boisset (1939), Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800), André Tassin (1902), J. R. D. Tata (1904), Frédéric Kanouté (1977), and Viviane Romance (1912). After him are Paul Le Guen (1964), André Simon (1920), Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709), José Dolhem (1944), Édouard Mendy (1992), and Ernst Stadler (1883).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 144. Before him are Philippe Verdelot (null), Jean Langlais (1907), Félicien David (1810), Tristan Murail (1947), Édouard Colonne (1838), and Louise Bertin (1805). After him are Michel Colombier (1939), Nicolas Dalayrac (1753), Victor Massé (1822), Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682), François Sudre (1787), and Robert Planquette (1848).

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