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Nicolas Gombert

1495 - 1560

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Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous and influential composers between Josquin des Prez and Palestrina, and best represents the fully developed, complex polyphonic style of this period in music history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Gombert is the 841st most popular composer (down from 716th in 2019), the 3,293rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,943rd in 2019) and the 117th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Nicolas Gombert ranks 841 out of 1,451. Before him are Michael Tippett, George Crumb, Rebecca Clarke, Salvatore Sciarrino, La Monte Young, and Elliott Carter. After him are Cesare Pugni, Heino Eller, Edmond Audran, István Kertész, Shunsuke Kikuchi, and Koichi Sugiyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1495, Nicolas Gombert ranks 14. Before him are Barbara Zápolya, Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, Luigi Alamanni, Giampietrino, Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, and Marcin Bielski. After him are Melchior Hoffman, and Pascual de Andagoya. Among people deceased in 1560, Nicolas Gombert ranks 17. Before him are Domingo de Soto, Melchor Cano, Jean du Bellay, Jan Mandijn, Philip I, Duke of Pomerania, and Jan Łaski. After him are Amy Robsart, and Wacław of Szamotuły.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Gombert ranks 3,293 out of 6,770. Before him are Joan, Countess of Toulouse (1220), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), and Mark Meadows (1959). After him are Maurice Larrouy (1872), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Albert I, Count of Namur (1000), Bernard Lama (1963), Louis Majorelle (1859), and Léon Daudet (1867).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Nicolas Gombert ranks 117. Before him are George Onslow (1784), Louise Bertin (1805), Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), Guy Ropartz (1864), and Henri-Montan Berton (1767). After him are Edmond Audran (1840), Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Alfred Bruneau (1857), Henri Tomasi (1901), Claude Le Jeune (1528), and Henri Rabaud (1873).

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