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Michel Blavet

1700 - 1768

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Michel Blavet (March 13, 1700 – October 28, 1768) was a French composer and flute virtuoso. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the bassoon and the flute which he held to the left, the opposite of how most flutists hold theirs today. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Blavet is the 745th most popular composer (up from 813th in 2019), the 3,005th most popular biography from France (up from 3,225th in 2019) and the 106th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Michel Blavet ranks 745 out of 1,451. Before him are Stephen Sondheim, Giacomo Antonio Perti, Edward MacDowell, Ernest Gold, Aribert Reimann, and Aristides Quintilianus. After him are Domenico Gabrielli, Boris Asafyev, Carlos Chávez, Franchinus Gaffurius, Pierre Attaingnant, and Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, Michel Blavet ranks 24. Before him are Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Picander, Stanisław Konarski, and Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. After him are John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Ashraf Hotak, Sabah I bin Jaber, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, Semyon Chelyuskin, and Pietro Bracci. Among people deceased in 1768, Michel Blavet ranks 14. Before him are Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, and François de Cuvilliés. After him are Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Robert Simson, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, Eggert Ólafsson, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, and George Hadley.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Blavet ranks 3,005 out of 6,770. Before him are François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), N'Golo Kanté (1991), Gabriel Hanotaux (1853), Jacques-Alain Miller (1944), Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria (1403), and Henri Alekan (1909). After him are Guillaume Depardieu (1971), Christian d'Oriola (1928), Pierre Berthier (1782), Salomon, King of Brittany (900), Patrick Battiston (1957), and Nicholas Rémy (1530).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Michel Blavet ranks 106. Before him are Jean-François Dandrieu (1682), Claude Balbastre (1724), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), Augusta Holmès (1847), Michel Corrette (1707), and Benjamin Godard (1849). After him are Pierre Attaingnant (1494), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), Charles Tournemire (1870), André Caplet (1878), George Onslow (1784), and Louise Bertin (1805).

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