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Jeanne Demessieux

1921 - 1968

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Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux (14 February 1921 – 11 November 1968) was a French organist, pianist, composer, and teacher. She was the chief organist at Saint-Esprit for 29 years and at La Madeleine in Paris starting in 1962. She performed internationally as a concert organist and was the first female organist to sign a record contract. She went on to record many organ works, including her own compositions. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeanne Demessieux is the 886th most popular composer (up from 1,169th in 2019), the 3,427th most popular biography from France (up from 4,448th in 2019) and the 126th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jeanne Demessieux ranks 886 out of 1,451. Before her are Keiko Abe, Federico Moreno Torroba, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Joseph Canteloube, and Käbi Laretei. After her are Johann Jacob Bach, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Armando Trovajoli, Silvestre Revueltas, Yuri Antonov, and Robert Planquette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Jeanne Demessieux ranks 204. Before her are Reuven Feuerstein, Theodore Van Kirk, John Aston Sr., Alain Mimoun, Oldřich Černík, and Karen Hoff. After her are Naomi Parker Fraley, Juan Zambudio Velasco, Branko Mamula, Ezzard Charles, Viktor Chukarin, and Antonio María Javierre Ortas. Among people deceased in 1968, Jeanne Demessieux ranks 113. Before her are Chana Orloff, Maurice Larrouy, Gunnar Ekelöf, Armando Castellazzi, Lina Stern, and Ludowika Jakobsson. After her are Robert Z. Leonard, Anthony Asquith, Ellen Gleditsch, Mae Marsh, Harry Stenqvist, and R. Norris Williams.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jeanne Demessieux ranks 3,427 out of 6,770. Before her are Antoine Furetière (1619), Roland Dumas (1922), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Louis Pergaud (1882), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), and François Marius Granet (1775). After her are Chiara Mastroianni (1972), René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714), Maurice Tourneur (1876), Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), Julie Manet (1878), and François Séverin Marceau (1769).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Jeanne Demessieux ranks 126. Before her are Alfred Bruneau (1857), Henri Tomasi (1901), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Henri Rabaud (1873), Loyset Compère (1440), and Joseph Canteloube (1879). After her are Robert Planquette (1848), André Gedalge (1856), Édouard Colonne (1838), Petrus de Cruce (1300), Gérard Grisey (1946), and Déodat de Séverac (1872).

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