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Cécile Chaminade

1857 - 1944

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Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cécile Chaminade is the 252nd most popular composer (up from 308th in 2019), the 1,098th most popular biography from France (up from 1,405th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Cécile Chaminade ranks 252 out of 1,451. Before her are Gaspare Spontini, Jerry Goldsmith, Carl Friedrich Abel, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Maurizio Pollini, and Ambroise Thomas. After her are Eugen d'Albert, Francis Lai, Carl Stamitz, Vincent d'Indy, Alfred Schnittke, and James Horner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Cécile Chaminade ranks 35. Before her are Joseph Babinski, Thorstein Veblen, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Ida Tarbell, A. E. Waite, and Karl Pearson. After her are Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, George Gissing, Christian Michelsen, 12th Dalai Lama, Otto von Below, and Max Klinger. Among people deceased in 1944, Cécile Chaminade ranks 59. Before her are Nikolai Vatutin, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Florence Foster Jenkins, Leo Baekeland, and Ida Tarbell. After her are Jakob von Uexküll, Jean Giraudoux, Mildred Harris, Hans-Valentin Hube, Kasturba Gandhi, and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cécile Chaminade ranks 1,098 out of 6,770. Before her are Horace Vernet (1789), Léon Bonnat (1833), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Henriette of France (1727), Richard Avenarius (1843), and Ambroise Thomas (1811). After her are Julien Green (1900), Edmond Debeaumarché (1906), Michèle Morgan (1920), Marie Duplessis (1824), Jules Renard (1864), and Christina of Lorraine (1565).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Cécile Chaminade ranks 42. Before her are Lili Boulanger (1893), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Ernest Chausson (1855), Albert Roussel (1869), Marcel Dupré (1886), and Ambroise Thomas (1811). After her are Francis Lai (1932), Vincent d'Indy (1851), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Jacques Ibert (1890), Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), and Louis-Claude Daquin (1694).

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