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Pierre Attaingnant

1494 - 1552

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Pierre Attaingnant or Attaignant (c. 1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French music publisher, active in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Attaingnant has received more than 70,407 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pierre Attaingnant is the 815th most popular composer (down from 750th in 2019), the 3,236th most popular biography from France (down from 2,921st in 2019) and the 116th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 815 out of 1,451Before him are Louis Andriessen, Alexander Alyabyev, Annibale Padovano, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Michel Blavet, and Philippe de Monte. After him are Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Keiko Abe, Nikolay Diletsky, Nannette Streicher, Heino Eller, and Robert Cambert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 24Before him are Antoinette de Bourbon, Ambrosius Holbein, Christina Gyllenstierna, Domingo de Soto, Francesco Maurolico, and Johannes Agricola. After him are Qiu Ying, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, and David Beaton. Among people deceased in 1552, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 13Before him are Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Olaus Petri, Guru Angad, Andreas Osiander, Antonio de Mendoza, and Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg. After him is Qiu Ying.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 3,236 out of 6,770Before him are Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou (1040), René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714), Flodoard (894), Jean-Christophe Grangé (1961), François de Créquy (1625), and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770). After him are Denis Pétau (1583), Jean-Christophe Bouvet (1947), Richard Simon (1638), Érard de la Marck (1472), René de Froulay de Tessé (1648), and Robert Enrico (1931).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 116Before him are George Onslow (1784), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Jean Guillou (1930), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), and Michel Blavet (1700). After him are Robert Cambert (1628), Alfred Bruneau (1857), André Caplet (1878), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), Henri-Montan Berton (1767), and Déodat de Séverac (1872).