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Louis Marchand

1669 - 1732

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Louis Marchand (2 February 1669 – 17 February 1732) was a French organist, harpsichordist and composer. Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as one of the best known French virtuosos of his time. He worked as organist of numerous churches and, for a few years, as one of the four organistes du roy. Marchand had a violent temperament and an arrogant personality, and his life was filled with scandals, publicized and widely discussed both during his lifetime and after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Marchand is the 363rd most popular composer (down from 346th in 2019), the 1,542nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,560th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Louis Marchand ranks 363 out of 1,451. Before him are Hans Richter, Anatoly Lyadov, Hans Werner Henze, Bernardo Pasquini, Leonardo Leo, and Frank Martin. After him are Franco Alfano, Wojciech Kilar, Johan Svendsen, Hans Leo Hassler, Antoine Busnois, and Mykola Lysenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1669, Louis Marchand ranks 4. Before him are Maria Antonia of Austria, Anne Marie d'Orléans, and Yevdokiya Lopukhina. After him are Wirich Philipp von Daun, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Isabel Luísa, Princess of Beira, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, Sébastien Vaillant, Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Davit Bek, and Jacob Bruce. Among people deceased in 1732, Louis Marchand ranks 4. Before him are Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, Emperor Reigen, and Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are John Gay, André Charles Boulle, Woodes Rogers, Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Marchand ranks 1,542 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (1824), Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1709), Eugène Tisserant (1884), Fernand Cormon (1845), Jean Clouet (1480), and Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476). After him are Charles-Michel de l'Épée (1712), Charles, Duke of Mayenne (1554), Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (1524), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Maria of Montpellier (1182), and Fulk III, Count of Anjou (970).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Louis Marchand ranks 56. Before him are Georges Auric (1899), André Campra (1660), Clément Janequin (1485), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), and Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766). After him are Antoine Busnois (1430), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Louis Durey (1888), André Jolivet (1905), and Charles Koechlin (1867).

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