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Maurice Emmanuel

1862 - 1938

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Marie François Maurice Emmanuel (2 May 1862 – 14 December 1938) was a French composer of classical music and musicologist born in Bar-sur-Aube, a small town in the Champagne-Ardenne region of northeastern France. It was there where he first heard his grandfather's printing press which according to his granddaughter, Anne Eichner-Emmanuel, first gave him the feeling of rhythm. Brought up in Dijon, Maurice Emmanuel became a chorister at Beaune cathedral after his family moved to the city in 1869. According to his granddaughter, Anne Eichner-Emmanuel, he was influenced by the brass bands on the streets of Beaune and by the "songs of the grape pickers which imprinted melodies in his memory so different from all the classical music he was taught in the academy of music." Subsequently, he went to Paris, and in 1880 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where his composition teacher was Léo Delibes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Emmanuel is the 691st most popular composer (up from 762nd in 2019), the 2,861st most popular biography from France (up from 3,083rd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Maurice Emmanuel ranks 691 out of 1,451. Before him are Giovanni Battista Vitali, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Zbigniew Preisner, Alonso Mudarra, Jakov Gotovac, and Jerome Kern. After him are Josip Runjanin, Augusta Holmès, Carmine Coppola, Xavier Cugat, Tielman Susato, and Orazio Vecchi.

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Among people born in 1862, Maurice Emmanuel ranks 74. Before him are Theodor Boveri, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Henri Le Sidaner, Okakura Kakuzō, Carl Charlier, and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. After him are Adolphe Appia, Marcel Prévost, Agnes Pockels, Alexander Guchkov, Bajram Curri, and João do Canto e Castro. Among people deceased in 1938, Maurice Emmanuel ranks 97. Before him are Bernd Rosemeyer, John Bates Clark, Otto von Lossow, Ante Trumbić, Egon Friedell, and Harry Myers. After him are Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Frigyes Karinthy, Otto Warburg, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Max Factor, and Miguel Cabanellas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Emmanuel ranks 2,861 out of 6,770. Before him are Christian Louboutin (1964), Paul Gervais (1816), Georges Catroux (1877), Abraham Duquesne (1610), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), and Seán MacBride (1904). After him are Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Georges Ohnet (1848), Frédéric François-Marsal (1874), Jacques-François Menou (1750), Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti (1734), and Augusta Holmès (1847).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Maurice Emmanuel ranks 102. Before him are Pierre Henry (1927), Antoine Forqueray (1671), François Sudre (1787), Charles Lecocq (1832), Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), and Claude Balbastre (1724). After him are Augusta Holmès (1847), Michel Corrette (1707), Benjamin Godard (1849), Michel Blavet (1700), Pierre Attaingnant (1494), and Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817).

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