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Charles Koechlin

1867 - 1950

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Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (French: [ʃaʁl lwi øʒɛn keklɛ̃]; 27 November 1867 – 31 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his better known works is Les Heures persanes, a set of piano pieces based on the novel Vers Ispahan by Pierre Loti and The Seven Stars Symphony, a 7 movement symphony where each movement is themed around a different film star (all Silent era stars) who were popular at the time of the piece's writing (1933). He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars (especially Lilian Harvey and Ginger Rogers), traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. He once said: "The artist needs an ivory tower, not as an escape from the world, but as a place where he can view the world and be himself. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Koechlin is the 392nd most popular composer (down from 375th in 2019), the 1,657th most popular biography from France (up from 1,684th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Koechlin ranks 392 out of 1,451. Before him are André Jolivet, Cole Porter, Jacobus Gallus, Johann Adam Reincken, Giovanni Legrenzi, and Richard Rodgers. After him are Karl Richter, Henri Dutilleux, Hans Pfitzner, Viktor Ullmann, Mauricio Kagel, and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Charles Koechlin ranks 48. Before him are Charles Fabry, Hans Driesch, Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Wilhelm Groener, and Madam C. J. Walker. After him are Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Leo Jogiches, Mikhail Eisenstein, Frederick Keeping, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, and Sundance Kid. Among people deceased in 1950, Charles Koechlin ranks 46. Before him are Axeman of New Orleans, Constantin Carathéodory, Eliel Saarinen, Milada Horáková, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, and Vasil Kolarov. After him are Jan Smuts, Fevzi Çakmak, Francesco Cilea, Frederick Keeping, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, and Karl Guthe Jansky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Koechlin ranks 1,657 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Aymé (1902), Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767), Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797), Antoine Baumé (1728), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), and William III, Duke of Aquitaine (910). After him are Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), Yves Congar (1904), Paul Lévy (1886), Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), and Alexandre Brongniart (1770).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Charles Koechlin ranks 62. Before him are Louis Marchand (1669), Antoine Busnois (1430), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Louis Durey (1888), and André Jolivet (1905). After him are Henri Dutilleux (1916), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), Maurice Duruflé (1902), Georges Delerue (1925), Mélanie Bonis (1858), and Georg Muffat (1653).

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