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Louis Durey

1888 - 1979

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Louis Edmond Durey (French: [dyʁɛ]; 27 May 1888 – 3 July 1979) was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Durey is the 380th most popular composer (up from 434th in 2019), the 1,607th most popular biography from France (up from 1,899th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Louis Durey ranks 380 out of 1,451. Before him are Ernest Ansermet, Alessandro Stradella, Grażyna Bacewicz, Toru Takemitsu, Josef Rheinberger, and Alexander Agricola. After him are Nikolai Medtner, Ferdinando Carulli, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Giovanni Bottesini, Joaquín Turina, and André Jolivet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Louis Durey ranks 60. Before him are Heinrich Neuhaus, Thea von Harbou, Chandrashekhar Agashe, W. O. Bentley, Henry A. Wallace, and Hans Knappertsbusch. After him are Tôn Đức Thắng, Masaharu Homma, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Antonio Sant'Elia, Harald Sverdrup, and Clara Campoamor. Among people deceased in 1979, Louis Durey ranks 52. Before him are Jean-Marie Villot, Alfredo Ottaviani, Peggy Guggenheim, Louis Chiron, Nicholas Ray, and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth. After him are Conrad Hilton, Richard Rodgers, Charles W. Morris, Walther Gerlach, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Michael Wilding.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Durey ranks 1,607 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Mendès France (1907), Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (1778), Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754), Jacques Becker (1906), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), and Bernard Lyot (1897). After him are Arletty (1898), Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665), Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807), Roland Topor (1938), and Étienne Marcel (1315).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Louis Durey ranks 60. Before him are Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766), Louis Marchand (1669), Antoine Busnois (1430), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676). After him are André Jolivet (1905), Charles Koechlin (1867), Henri Dutilleux (1916), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), Maurice Duruflé (1902), and Georges Delerue (1925).

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