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Ambroise Thomas

1811 - 1896

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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz tɔmɑ]; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837. He wrote twenty further operas over the next decades, mostly comic, but he also treated more serious subjects, finding considerable success with audiences in France and abroad. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ambroise Thomas is the 251st most popular composer (down from 250th in 2019), the 1,097th most popular biography from France (up from 1,142nd in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Composer.

Ambroise Thomas is most famous for his opera Mignon, which he composed in 1866.

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Among composers, Ambroise Thomas ranks 251 out of 1,451. Before him are Jacques Arcadelt, Gaspare Spontini, Jerry Goldsmith, Carl Friedrich Abel, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Maurizio Pollini. After him are Cécile Chaminade, Eugen d'Albert, Francis Lai, Carl Stamitz, Vincent d'Indy, and Alfred Schnittke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Ambroise Thomas ranks 16. Before him are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Vissarion Belinsky, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, François Achille Bazaine, and Louis Blanc. After him are Elisha Otis, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, George Gilbert Scott, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Jón Sigurðsson, and Auguste Bravais. Among people deceased in 1896, Ambroise Thomas ranks 20. Before him are Harriet Beecher Stowe, H. H. Holmes, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Edmond de Goncourt, Louis-Jules Trochu, and Richard Avenarius. After him are Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Prince Henry of Battenberg, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., John Langdon Down, Emil du Bois-Reymond, and Ichiyō Higuchi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 1,097 out of 6,770. Before him are André-Hercule de Fleury (1653), Horace Vernet (1789), Léon Bonnat (1833), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Henriette of France (1727), and Richard Avenarius (1843). After him are Cécile Chaminade (1857), Julien Green (1900), Edmond Debeaumarché (1906), Michèle Morgan (1920), Marie Duplessis (1824), and Jules Renard (1864).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Ambroise Thomas ranks 41. Before him are Fromental Halévy (1799), Lili Boulanger (1893), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Ernest Chausson (1855), Albert Roussel (1869), and Marcel Dupré (1886). After him are Cécile Chaminade (1857), Francis Lai (1932), Vincent d'Indy (1851), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Jacques Ibert (1890), and Emmanuel Chabrier (1841).

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