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Jean-François Le Sueur

1760 - 1837

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Jean-François Le Sueur (more commonly Lesueur; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa lə sɥœʁ]; 15 February 1760 – 6 October 1837) was a French composer, best known for his oratorios and operas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-François Le Sueur is the 371st most popular composer (up from 548th in 2019), the 1,576th most popular biography from France (up from 2,276th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jean-François Le Sueur ranks 371 out of 1,451Before him are Wojciech Kilar, Johan Svendsen, Hans Leo Hassler, Antoine Busnois, Mykola Lysenko, and Alfredo Casella. After him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, John Dunstaple, Ernest Ansermet, Alessandro Stradella, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Toru Takemitsu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Jean-François Le Sueur ranks 17Before him are Johan Gadolin, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, William Beckford, Oliver Wolcott Jr., August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. After him are John Breckinridge, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Aloysia Weber, Olof Swartz, Johann Peter Hebel, and Christian Kramp. Among people deceased in 1837, Jean-François Le Sueur ranks 17Before him are Georg Büchner, François Gérard, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Adam Afzelius. After him are Philippe Buonarroti, Duke Pius August in Bavaria, Ludwig Börne, 10th Dalai Lama, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, and Marguerite Gérard.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Le Sueur ranks 1,576 out of 6,770Before him are Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Guy de Chauliac (1300), Lolo Ferrari (1963), and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746). After him are Michel Serres (1930), Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1609), Georges Picquart (1854), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), Victorinus (300), and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Jean-François Le Sueur ranks 58Before him are Clément Janequin (1485), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766), Louis Marchand (1669), and Antoine Busnois (1430). After him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Louis Durey (1888), André Jolivet (1905), Charles Koechlin (1867), Henri Dutilleux (1916), and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689).