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Nicolas-Charles Bochsa

1789 - 1856

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Robert-Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ nikɔla ʃaʁl bɔksa]; 9 August 1789 – 6 January 1856) was a French harpist and composer. His relationship with Anna Bishop was popularly thought to have inspired that of Svengali and Trilby in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas-Charles Bochsa is the 518th most popular composer (up from 697th in 2019), the 2,145th most popular biography from France (up from 2,876th in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa ranks 518 out of 1,451. Before him are Luis Bacalov, Bill Conti, Leroy Anderson, Jean Françaix, Reinhard Keiser, and Jean Absil. After him are Franck Pourcel, Maddalena Casulana, Léon Boëllmann, Francesco Maria Veracini, Albéric Magnard, and Friedrich Wieck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa ranks 17. Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Heinrich Schwabe, Maria Szymanowska, Abbas Mirza, Carl Gustav Carus, and Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Marcellin Champagnat, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, Friedrich Boie, John Martin, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and William Cranch Bond. Among people deceased in 1856, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa ranks 24. Before him are 11th Dalai Lama, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, David d'Angers, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Farkas Bolyai, and Princess Elisabeth of Savoy. After him are Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Julie Guicciardi, Augustin Thierry, Pyotr Chaadayev, Georgios Sinas, and William Buckland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa ranks 2,145 out of 6,770. Before him are Roland Bonaparte (1858), Pontus De la Gardie (1520), Georges Duhamel (1884), Louis Trousselier (1881), François-André Vincent (1746), and Prosper of Aquitaine (390). After him are John Eudes (1601), Adolphe Monticelli (1824), Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557), Yasmina Reza (1959), Hervé Villechaize (1943), and Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa ranks 80. Before him are Florent Schmitt (1870), Théodore Dubois (1837), André Messager (1853), Jehan Alain (1911), Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (1640), and Jean Françaix (1912). After him are Franck Pourcel (1913), Léon Boëllmann (1862), Albéric Magnard (1865), Henri Duparc (1848), Louise Farrenc (1804), and Alexandre Desplat (1961).

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