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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

1729 - 1817

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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ alɛksɑ̃dʁ mɔ̃siɲi]; (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 39,569 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny is the 1,104th most popular composer (down from 1,076th in 2019), the 4,216th most popular biography from France (down from 3,887th in 2019) and the 150th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 1,104 out of 1,451. Before him are Abdylas Maldybaev, Rudolf Tobias, Zygmunt Noskowski, Rudolf Friml, Kārlis Baumanis, and Harry Partch. After him are Alexander Moyzes, Vilém Blodek, Johann Nepomuk David, Robert Franz, Luis de Pablo, and Yevhen Stankovych.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 28. Before him are Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Giuseppe Parini, Michael Denis, and Ivan Argunov. After him are Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, Clara Reeve, Fyodor Volkov, Josiah Bartlett, and Thomas Percy. Among people deceased in 1817, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 37. Before him are Joseph von Sonnenfels, Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Pattimura, William Gregor, Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Martín Javier Mina y Larrea. After him are Anna Maria Lenngren, Pál Kitaibel, Juan Meléndez Valdés, and Thomas McKean.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 4,216 out of 6,770. Before him are Rémi Gaillard (1975), Justine Triet (1978), Marguerite Broquedis (1893), Georges Courteline (1858), Georg von Rosen (1843), and André Bonin (1909). After him are Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Claude Dagens (1940), Jacques Ochs (1883), François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773), René Guillot (1900), and Paul Passy (1859).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 150. Before him are Antoine Duhamel (1925), Philippe Sarde (1948), Félicien David (1810), François Sudre (1787), Tristan Murail (1947), and Jean Langlais (1907). After him are Jean Barraqué (1928), Ernest Reyer (1823), Philippe Verdelot (null), Betsy Jolas (1926), Robert Planquette (1848), and Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682).

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