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Edmond Audran

1840 - 1901

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Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas. After beginning his career in Marseille as an organist, Audran composed religious music and began to write works for the stage in the 1860s and 1870s. Among these, Le grand mogol (1877) was the most popular and was later revived in Paris, London and New York. In 1879 he moved to Paris, where some of his pieces achieved considerable success both in France and abroad, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890) and La poupée (1896). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond Audran is the 844th most popular composer (down from 678th in 2019), the 3,306th most popular biography from France (down from 2,792nd in 2019) and the 118th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Edmond Audran ranks 844 out of 1,451. Before him are Salvatore Sciarrino, La Monte Young, Elliott Carter, Nicolas Gombert, Cesare Pugni, and Heino Eller. After him are István Kertész, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Koichi Sugiyama, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Temistocle Solera, and Alfred Bruneau.

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Among people born in 1840, Edmond Audran ranks 51. Before him are Alexander Kovalevsky, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Gabriel von Max, Dmitry Pisarev, Abraham Goldfaden, and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild. After him are Jeanna Bauck, William Graham Sumner, Thomas Nast, Helena Modjeska, Gall, and Titu Maiorescu. Among people deceased in 1901, Edmond Audran ranks 52. Before him are Arvid Posse, Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, Francesc Pi i Margall, and John Kemp Starley. After him are Alfred Tysoe, Princess Louise of Prussia, Aleksander Gierymski, Wojciech Gerson, Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Ghevont Alishan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond Audran ranks 3,306 out of 6,770. Before him are Léon Daudet (1867), Edward Poynter (1836), Bernard Thévenet (1948), Wan Hu (1510), Eugène Isabey (1803), and Henri Brisson (1835). After him are Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770), Claude Allègre (1937), Théophraste Renaudot (1586), André Clot (1909), Vincent Voiture (1597), and Charles Pathé (1863).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Edmond Audran ranks 118. Before him are Louise Bertin (1805), Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), Guy Ropartz (1864), Henri-Montan Berton (1767), and Nicolas Gombert (1495). After him are Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Alfred Bruneau (1857), Henri Tomasi (1901), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Henri Rabaud (1873), and Loyset Compère (1440).

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