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Charles Gounod

1818 - 1893

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Charles-François Gounod (; French: [ʃaʁl fʁɑ̃swa ɡuno]; 17 June 1818 – 18 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been Faust (1859); his Roméo et Juliette (1867) also remains in the international repertory. He composed a large amount of church music, many songs, and popular short pieces including his "Ave Maria" (an elaboration of a Bach piece) and "Funeral March of a Marionette". Born in Paris into an artistic and musical family, Gounod was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris and won France's most prestigious musical prize, the Prix de Rome. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Gounod is the 60th most popular composer (up from 66th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from France (up from 268th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Composer.

Charles Gounod is most famous for his opera Faust, which is based on the novel of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Gounod ranks 60 out of 1,451. Before him are Georg Philipp Telemann, Aram Khachaturian, Carl Maria von Weber, Guillaume Du Fay, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. After him are Anton Webern, Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Henry Purcell, and Dieterich Buxtehude.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Charles Gounod ranks 8. Before him are James Prescott Joule, Christian IX of Denmark, Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emily Brontë, and Ivan Turgenev. After him are Jacob Burckhardt, Marius Petipa, Lewis H. Morgan, Tewodros II, Hermann Kolbe, and Rudolf von Jhering. Among people deceased in 1893, Charles Gounod ranks 3. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Guy de Maupassant. After him are Josef Stefan, Patrice de MacMahon, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jean-Martin Charcot, Jan Matejko, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, Baron Alexander von Bach, and Ernst Kummer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Gounod ranks 205 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Prost (1955), Théodore Géricault (1791), Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), Jean Bodin (1530), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), and Philip VI of France (1293). After him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Charles IV of France (1294), Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (1934), and Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Charles Gounod ranks 8. Before him are Maurice Ravel (1875), Hector Berlioz (1803), Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), and Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683). After him are Erik Satie (1866), Gabriel Fauré (1845), François Couperin (1668), Jules Massenet (1842), Josquin des Prez (1450), and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645).

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