COMPOSER

André Caplet

1878 - 1925

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André Léon Caplet (23 November 1878 – 22 April 1925) was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy who orchestrated several of his compositions, as well as arrangements of several of them for different instruments. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Caplet is the 769th most popular composer (up from 839th in 2019), the 3,096th most popular biography from France (up from 3,329th in 2019) and the 110th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, André Caplet ranks 769 out of 1,451Before him are Joseph Weigl, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Luigi Denza, Sigismondo d'India, Joseph Marx, and Thomas Morley. After him are Sigismund von Neukomm, George Onslow, Alexander Tcherepnin, Vittoria Aleotti, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, and Louise Bertin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, André Caplet ranks 118Before him are Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Raymond Smith Dugan, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Pat McDonald, Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and Massimo Bontempelli. After him are Konstantinos Paspatis, Victor Segalen, Zabel Yesayan, Anna Demidova, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, and J. F. C. Fuller. Among people deceased in 1925, André Caplet ranks 82Before him are Yevgenia Bosch, Antonio Maura, Grigory Kotovsky, Francis Darwin, Bajram Curri, and Otto Wilhelm Thomé. After him are Ephraim Moses Lilien, Georg August Schweinfurth, Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Julian Marchlewski, Princess Therese of Bavaria, and J. M. E. McTaggart.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Caplet ranks 3,096 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (1320), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Othon Friesz (1879), Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle (1710), and Lucien Tesnière (1893). After him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Georges Lautner (1926), George Onslow (1784), Claude François de Malet (1754), Lucien Quélet (1832), and Louise Weiss (1893).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, André Caplet ranks 110Before him are Michel Corrette (1707), Benjamin Godard (1849), Michel Blavet (1700), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), and Charles Tournemire (1870). After him are George Onslow (1784), Louise Bertin (1805), Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), Guy Ropartz (1864), and Henri-Montan Berton (1767).