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Sébastien Érard

1752 - 1831

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Sébastien Érard (French: [sebastjɛ̃ eʁaʁ]; 5 April 1752 – 5 August 1831) was a French instrument maker who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sébastien Érard has received more than 135,516 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Sébastien Érard is the 7,160th most popular politician (down from 5,705th in 2019), the 2,094th most popular biography from France (down from 1,722nd in 2019) and the 505th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sébastien Érard ranks 7,160 out of 19,576Before him are Alejandro Giammattei, Dolon, Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Yahya ibn Khalid, and Arnaldo Forlani. After him are Jacob Schiff, Andronikos Doukas, Leland Stanford, Sibylla of Anjou, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and Constantine II of Scotland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Sébastien Érard ranks 15Before him are Jacques Roux, Thomas Chatterton, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Nguyễn Huệ, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, and Infante Gabriel of Spain. After him are John Nash, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Andrey Razumovsky, Betsy Ross, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. Among people deceased in 1831, Sébastien Érard ranks 28Before him are Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Maria Szymanowska, Henri Grégoire, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, and Princess Louise of Denmark. After him are James Hoban, Henry Maudslay, Jedediah Smith, Ryōkan, Vasily Golovnin, and Franz Krommer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sébastien Érard ranks 2,094 out of 6,770Before him are Pontus De la Gardie (1520), Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414), James Louis Sobieski (1667), Nicholas of Verdun (1130), Pierre d'Aubusson (1423), and Alizée (1984). After him are Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais (1428), Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (1257), Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou (1006), François Ozon (1967), Philip II, Count of Nevers (1389), and Sébastien Bourdon (1616).

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