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Mélanie Bonis

1858 - 1937

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Mélanie Hélène "Mel" Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937) was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. She attended the Paris Conservatoire, where her teachers included César Franck, Ernest Guiraud, and Auguste Bazille. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mélanie Bonis is the 419th most popular composer (up from 461st in 2019), the 1,796th most popular biography from France (up from 1,986th in 2019) and the 67th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mélanie Bonis ranks 419 out of 1,451Before her are Nicolaus Bruhns, Alexander Arutiunian, Maurice Duruflé, Ignaz Moscheles, Boris Lyatoshinsky, and Georges Delerue. After her are Ferdinand Hiller, Georg Muffat, Wolfgang Wagner, Hermann Abendroth, Elmer Bernstein, and Zdeněk Fibich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Mélanie Bonis ranks 47Before her are Prince Henry of Battenberg, Saad Zaghloul, Albrecht Penck, Wolfgang Kapp, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, and Fernand Khnopff. After her are Remy de Gourmont, Gaetano Mosca, Constance Lloyd, Ethel Smyth, Alois Riegl, and Jan Toorop. Among people deceased in 1937, Mélanie Bonis ranks 50Before her are Georgy Pyatakov, Diana Abgar, Walter Simons, Max Adler, Ray Ewry, and Andrés Nin Pérez. After her are Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, Attila József, Gabriel Pierné, Ida Dalser, Adalbert Deșu, and Ahmed Izzet Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Mélanie Bonis ranks 1,796 out of 6,770Before her are Diane de France (1538), Germain of Paris (496), John of Montfort (1294), Joseph Gallieni (1849), James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670), and Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (1736). After her are Anne Henriette of Bavaria (1648), François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Henri Cornet (1884), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), and Joseph Fesch (1763).

Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Mélanie Bonis ranks 67Before her are André Jolivet (1905), Charles Koechlin (1867), Henri Dutilleux (1916), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), Maurice Duruflé (1902), and Georges Delerue (1925). After her are Georg Muffat (1653), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), Gabriel Pierné (1863), Jaufre Rudel (1125), and Étienne Méhul (1763).