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Charles Tournemire

1870 - 1939

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Charles Arnould Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphonies (one of them choral), four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos. He is mainly remembered for his organ music, the best known being a set of pieces called L'Orgue mystique. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Tournemire is the 761st most popular composer (down from 736th in 2019), the 3,062nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,011th in 2019) and the 109th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Tournemire ranks 761 out of 1,451. Before him are Isaak Dunayevsky, Franz Lachner, Nicolas Isouard, Dave Grusin, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Edison Denisov. After him are Goffredo Petrassi, Joseph Weigl, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Luigi Denza, Sigismondo d'India, and Joseph Marx.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Charles Tournemire ranks 87. Before him are Ignacio Zuloaga, Dirk Jan de Geer, Thomas Byles, Erskine Childers, Ada Negri, and Motobu Chōki. After him are Hilaire Belloc, Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Francisco S. Carvajal, Osachi Hamaguchi, and Nikolay Lossky. Among people deceased in 1939, Charles Tournemire ranks 77. Before him are Fyodor Raskolnikov, S. S. Van Dine, Konstantin Somov, Zinaida Yusupova, Ma Rainey, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. After him are Stjepan Sarkotić, Francisco León de la Barra, Henry, Duke of Parma, Pavel Postyshev, Alice Brady, and Vlas Chubar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Tournemire ranks 3,062 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Percier (1764), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), Nasreddine Dinet (1861), Pierre Vernier (1580), Raymond Sommer (1906), and Louis Buffet (1818). After him are Mathieu Amalric (1965), Félix Bracquemond (1833), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), Salomon de Brosse (1571), Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), and Jules Vallès (1832).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Charles Tournemire ranks 109. Before him are Augusta Holmès (1847), Michel Corrette (1707), Benjamin Godard (1849), Michel Blavet (1700), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), and Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817). After him are André Caplet (1878), George Onslow (1784), Louise Bertin (1805), Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), and Guy Ropartz (1864).

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