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Benjamin Godard

1849 - 1895

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Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 1849 – 10 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) of tuberculosis and was buried in the family tomb in Taverny in the French department of Val-d'Oise. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Godard is the 714th most popular composer (up from 745th in 2019), the 2,921st most popular biography from France (up from 3,029th in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Benjamin Godard ranks 714 out of 1,451. Before him are Kurt Atterberg, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Leó Weiner, Robert Volkmann, and Michel Corrette. After him are Eduard Tubin, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Diego Ortiz, Václav Tomášek, and Nannette Streicher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Benjamin Godard ranks 52. Before him are Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Johan August Brinell, Oscar Hertwig, Alexander von Krobatin, and Károly Khuen-Héderváry. After him are Nikolai Nebogatov, Luther Burbank, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Richard Lydekker, Fritz Mauthner, and Agenor Maria Gołuchowski. Among people deceased in 1895, Benjamin Godard ranks 43. Before him are Camilla Collett, François Certain de Canrobert, Stefan Stambolov, Ding Ruchang, Mykhailo Drahomanov, and Albert F. Mummery. After him are Henri Ernest Baillon, Daniel Kirkwood, Władysław Podkowiński, Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, Knud Knudsen, and Lahiri Mahasaya.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benjamin Godard ranks 2,921 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Carmet (1920), Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756), Maryan Wisniewski (1937), Michel Corrette (1707), Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), and Édouard André (1840). After him are Christophe Galtier (1966), Hildebert (1056), Vernon Dobtcheff (1934), Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778), Pierre Grimal (1912), and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Benjamin Godard ranks 105. Before him are Charles Lecocq (1832), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), Claude Balbastre (1724), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), Augusta Holmès (1847), and Michel Corrette (1707). After him are Michel Blavet (1700), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), Charles Tournemire (1870), André Caplet (1878), and George Onslow (1784).

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