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Henri Rabaud

1873 - 1949

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Henri Benjamin Rabaud (10 November 1873 – 11 September 1949) was a French conductor, composer and teacher, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French music in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Paris into a musical family, Rabaud was a successful composer, conductor and academic, composer of several well-received works for the opera house and concert hall, conductor of the Paris Opéra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and, for more than twenty years, director of the Paris Conservatoire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Rabaud is the 857th most popular composer (up from 892nd in 2019), the 3,332nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,478th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Henri Rabaud ranks 857 out of 1,451Before him are Mateo Flecha, Alexander Spendiaryan, Xavier Montsalvatge, Henri Tomasi, Claude Le Jeune, and Johann Walter. After him are Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Bach, Alexei Lvov, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ferenc Farkas, and Simon Sechter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Henri Rabaud ranks 108Before him are Marija Jurić Zagorka, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Emmanuel de Martonne, Charles Fox Parham, and Cesare Orsenigo. After him are Dámaso Berenguer, Leo Baeck, Prosper Bruggeman, Ford Madox Ford, Edwin Flack, and Mariano Azuela. Among people deceased in 1949, Henri Rabaud ranks 100Before him are Leonor Michaelis, Wallace Beery, Nuri Killigil, Laura Montoya, Nikos Skalkottas, and James Forrestal. After him are Kanji Ishiwara, Maria Ouspenskaya, René Maire, Walter Short, Nikolay Gamaleya, and Jankel Adler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Rabaud ranks 3,332 out of 6,770Before him are Georges Hébert (1875), Josiane Balasko (1950), Henri Tomasi (1901), Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), Claude Le Jeune (1528), and Pierre Arditi (1944). After him are Édouard Le Roy (1870), Gérard Jugnot (1951), Sheila (1945), Éléonore de Roye (1535), Roberto Alagna (1963), and Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Henri Rabaud ranks 123Before him are Nicolas Gombert (1495), Edmond Audran (1840), Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Alfred Bruneau (1857), Henri Tomasi (1901), and Claude Le Jeune (1528). After him are Loyset Compère (1440), Joseph Canteloube (1879), Jeanne Demessieux (1921), Robert Planquette (1848), André Gedalge (1856), and Édouard Colonne (1838).