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Guillaume Lekeu

1870 - 1894

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Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu (French pronunciation: [ɡijom ləkø]; 20 January 1870 – 21 January 1894) was a Belgian composer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Lekeu is the 578th most popular composer (down from 501st in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Belgium (down from 245th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Belgian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Guillaume Lekeu ranks 578 out of 1,451. Before him are Per Nørgård, Aloysia Weber, Alexandre Tansman, Dora Pejačević, Eleni Karaindrou, and Florian Leopold Gassmann. After him are Pavel Haas, Alois Hába, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Amy Beach, Hervé, and Tikhon Khrennikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Guillaume Lekeu ranks 67. Before him are Alexandre Benois, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, Herbert Kilpin, Annie Londonderry, David Riazanov, and Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel. After him are Elizabeth Hesselblad, Vladimir Purishkevich, Géza Maróczy, Leonid Krasin, Saki, and Conrad Böcker. Among people deceased in 1894, Guillaume Lekeu ranks 30. Before him are Nikolai Ge, Alexander von Middendorff, William Waddington, August Kundt, R. M. Ballantyne, and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac. After him are Christina Rossetti, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, Amelia Bloomer, and Philipp Spitta.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Guillaume Lekeu ranks 301 out of 1,190. Before him are Guido Gezelle (1830), Johannes Ciconia (1370), Fernando (null), William of Moerbeke (1215), Georges Leekens (1949), and Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632). After him are Arnold Geulincx (1624), Antoine Wiertz (1806), Henri Debehogne (1928), Enzo Scifo (1966), Firmin Lambot (1886), and Stromae (1985).

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Among COMPOSERS In Belgium

Among composers born in Belgium, Guillaume Lekeu ranks 22. Before him are Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802), Johannes Tinctoris (1435), Pierre de la Rue (1460), Jean Absil (1893), Philippe Herreweghe (1947), and Johannes Ciconia (1370). After him are François-Joseph Fétis (1784), Giaches de Wert (1535), Joseph Jongen (1873), Hucbald (840), Peter Benoit (1834), and Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823).

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