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Louis Niedermeyer

1802 - 1861

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Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (27 April 1802 – 14 March 1861) was a Swiss and naturalized French composer. He chiefly wrote church music and a few operas. He also taught music and took over the École Choron, renamed École Niedermeyer de Paris, a school for the study and practice of church music, with students that include several eminent French musicians such as Gabriel Fauré and André Messager. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Niedermeyer is the 858th most popular composer (down from 845th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 330th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Louis Niedermeyer ranks 858 out of 1,451. Before him are Alexander Spendiaryan, Xavier Montsalvatge, Henri Tomasi, Claude Le Jeune, Johann Walter, and Henri Rabaud. After him are Heinrich Bach, Alexei Lvov, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ferenc Farkas, Simon Sechter, and Paul Lincke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Louis Niedermeyer ranks 38. Before him are Mariano Arista, Adolphe Nourrit, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Cesare Pugni. After him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Niccolò Tommaseo, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Adolphe d'Archiac, Adolphe Niel, and Benoît Fourneyron. Among people deceased in 1861, Louis Niedermeyer ranks 40. Before him are John Stevens Henslow, Joachim Lelewel, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Pierre Berthier, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Albert Niemann, Johann Andreas Wagner, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, and Václav Hanka.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Louis Niedermeyer ranks 334 out of 1,015. Before him are Hermann Barrelet (1879), Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (1921), Silvio Moser (1941), Simeon Bavier (1825), Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848), and Fernán Caballero (1796). After him are Charles Journet (1891), Saint Othmar (689), Bertrand Piccard (1958), Othmar Schoeck (1886), Maximilian Ulysses Browne (1705), and Johann Baptist Cysat (1585).

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Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Louis Niedermeyer ranks 13. Before him are Joachim Raff (1822), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Heinz Holliger (1939), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), and Gottfried von Einem (1918). After him are Othmar Schoeck (1886), Klaus Huber (1924), and Hans Huber (1852).

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