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Antoine Forqueray

1671 - 1745

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Antoine Forqueray (September 1672 – 28 June 1745) was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba. Forqueray, born in Paris, was the first in a line of composers which included his sons Jean-Baptiste (1699–1782) and Nicolas Gilles (1703–1761) as well as his brother Michel (1681–1757). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Forqueray is the 643rd most popular composer (up from 668th in 2019), the 2,672nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,753rd in 2019) and the 97th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antoine Forqueray ranks 643 out of 1,451. Before her are John Taverner, Georgy Sviridov, Pierre Henry, Malcolm Arnold, Arthur Sullivan, and Johann Friedrich Agricola. After her are Hermann Levi, Veljo Tormis, Oskar Nedbal, Ludwig Thuille, Ernesto Lecuona, and Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, Antoine Forqueray ranks 15. Before her are Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Rob Roy MacGregor, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, and Luigi Guido Grandi. After her are Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, Alivardi Khan, and Colley Cibber. Among people deceased in 1745, Antoine Forqueray ranks 9. Before her are Robert Walpole, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Ibrahim Muteferrika, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, and Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After her are Jean-Baptiste van Loo, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Nicola Fago, and James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Forqueray ranks 2,672 out of 6,770. Before her are Renaud Camus (1946), Marius Aventicensis (532), François de Charette (1763), Martine Carol (1920), Noël Bas (1877), and Maurice Pialat (1925). After her are Émile Ollivier (1825), Paschasius Radbertus (792), Jacques Roubaud (1932), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Odo I, Count of Blois (950), and Jacques Brugnon (1895).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Antoine Forqueray ranks 97. Before her are François Devienne (1759), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), Antoine François Marmontel (1816), Louis Couperin (1626), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), and Pierre Henry (1927). After her are François Sudre (1787), Charles Lecocq (1832), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), Claude Balbastre (1724), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), and Augusta Holmès (1847).

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