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Théodore Dubois

1837 - 1924

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Clément François Théodore Dubois (French pronunciation: [klemɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa teɔdɔʁ dybwa]; 24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher. After study at the Paris Conservatoire, Dubois won France's premier musical prize, the Prix de Rome in 1861. He became an organist and choirmaster at several well-known churches in Paris, and at the same time was a professor in the Conservatoire, teaching harmony from 1871 to 1891 and composition from 1891 to 1896, when he succeeded Ambroise Thomas as the Conservatoire's director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Théodore Dubois has received more than 124,258 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Théodore Dubois is the 469th most popular composer (up from 513th in 2019), the 2,008th most popular biography from France (up from 2,104th in 2019) and the 71st most popular French Composer.

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  • 22

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  • 7.50

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  • 1.80

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Théodore Dubois ranks 469 out of 1,451. Before him are Giovanni Pacini, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Jean Absil, Vítězslav Novák, and Antoine Busnois. After him are Johann Christoph Pepusch, Eugen Doga, Albert Lortzing, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Maurice Duruflé, and Zdeněk Fibich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Théodore Dubois ranks 40. Before him are Arnold Janssen, Henry Draper, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wild Bill Hickok, Pierre Auguste Cot, and Maria Domenica Mazzarello. After him are Georg Ebers, Ion Creangă, Alexandre Guilmant, Mubarak Al-Sabah, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, and Ernest Guiraud. Among people deceased in 1924, Théodore Dubois ranks 36. Before him are Ziya Gökalp, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Fernand Cormon, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Matsukata Masayoshi, and Aleksa Šantić. After him are Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Roland Bonaparte, Franz von Bayros, Helge von Koch, Valery Bryusov, and Princess Isabella of Bavaria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Théodore Dubois ranks 2,008 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Busnois (1430), Danielle Mitterrand (1924), Peire Vidal (1140), Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1343), Pierre Levegh (1905), and Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920). After him are Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt (1773), Édouard Séguin (1812), Robert Surcouf (1773), Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649), Pierre Charron (1541), and Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Théodore Dubois ranks 71. Before him are André Jolivet (1905), Étienne Méhul (1763), Louis Durey (1888), Franck Pourcel (1913), Mélanie Bonis (1858), and Antoine Busnois (1430). After him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Maurice Duruflé (1902), Florent Schmitt (1870), Alexandre Desplat (1961), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), and Jean-Féry Rebel (1666).

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