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Augusta Holmès

1847 - 1903

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Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (16 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent. In 1871, Holmès became a French national and added the accent to her last name. She also published music under the name Hermann Zenta. She wrote the texts to almost all of her vocal music herself, including songs, oratorios, the libretto of her opera La Montagne noire and the programmatic poems for her symphonic poems including Irlande and Andromède. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augusta Holmès is the 693rd most popular composer (up from 747th in 2019), the 2,867th most popular biography from France (up from 3,031st in 2019) and the 103rd most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Augusta Holmès ranks 693 out of 1,451. Before her are Zbigniew Preisner, Alonso Mudarra, Jakov Gotovac, Jerome Kern, Maurice Emmanuel, and Josip Runjanin. After her are Carmine Coppola, Xavier Cugat, Tielman Susato, Orazio Vecchi, Riccardo Zandonai, and Maxim Berezovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Augusta Holmès ranks 49. Before her are Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Frits Thaulow, Bertha Wegmann, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Margarete Steiff, and Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery. After her are Joseph Achille Le Bel, Millicent Fawcett, Karl Wittgenstein, Julia Lermontova, Pavel Yablochkov, and Remus von Woyrsch. Among people deceased in 1903, Augusta Holmès ranks 38. Before her are Hans Gude, Gaston Paris, Rudolf Lipschitz, Paul Du Chaillu, Ronglu, and Giuseppe Zanardelli. After her are Béni Kállay, Malwida von Meysenbug, Luigi Cremona, Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, and Auguste Kerckhoffs.

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In France

Among people born in France, Augusta Holmès ranks 2,867 out of 6,770. Before her are Maurice Emmanuel (1862), Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Georges Ohnet (1848), Frédéric François-Marsal (1874), Jacques-François Menou (1750), and Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti (1734). After her are Jean-Pierre Marielle (1932), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), Corbinian (670), Edgar Quinet (1803), Yves Meyer (1939), and Duke Philipp of Württemberg (1838).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Augusta Holmès ranks 103. Before her are Antoine Forqueray (1671), François Sudre (1787), Charles Lecocq (1832), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), Claude Balbastre (1724), and Maurice Emmanuel (1862). After her are Michel Corrette (1707), Benjamin Godard (1849), Michel Blavet (1700), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), and Charles Tournemire (1870).

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