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Pauline Viardot

1821 - 1910

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Pauline Viardot (pronounced [po.lin vjaʁ.do]; 18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, she came from a musical family and took up music at a young age. She began performing as a teenager and had a long and illustrious career as a star performer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pauline Viardot is the 212th most popular composer (down from 209th in 2019), the 970th most popular biography from France (up from 1,004th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Composer.

Pauline Viardot was a French mezzo-soprano and composer. She is most famous for being the first female to sing at the Paris Opera.

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Among composers, Pauline Viardot ranks 212 out of 1,451. Before her are Gilles Binchois, Johann Joachim Quantz, Komitas, Vittorio Monti, Jacob Obrecht, and Leonardo Vinci. After her are Dmitry Bortniansky, John Barry, Johann Joseph Fux, Umberto Giordano, Josef Mysliveček, and Francesca Caccini.

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Among people born in 1821, Pauline Viardot ranks 13. Before her are Auguste Mariette, Lola Montez, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilhelm Tempel, and Louis Vuitton. After her are Charles Tupper, Richard Francis Burton, Anita Garibaldi, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Henri-Frédéric Amiel. Among people deceased in 1910, Pauline Viardot ranks 21. Before her are Johann Gottfried Galle, Marius Petipa, Luigi Lucheni, Léon Walras, An Jung-geun, and Elizabeth Blackwell. After her are Huo Yuanjia, Carl Reinecke, Richard Abegg, Jules Renard, Stanislao Cannizzaro, and William Huggins.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pauline Viardot ranks 970 out of 6,770. Before her are Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), Louis Barthou (1862), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Childebert III (678), Claudette Colbert (1903), and Christian Clavier (1952). After her are Agnès Sorel (1422), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Maria Malibran (1808), Jeanne d'Évreux (1310), Joseph Babinski (1857), and Pierre Mignard (1612).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pauline Viardot ranks 34. Before her are Marin Marais (1656), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), Léonin (1135), Michel Legrand (1932), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775), and Charles-Marie Widor (1844). After her are Fromental Halévy (1799), Lili Boulanger (1893), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Ernest Chausson (1855), Albert Roussel (1869), and Marcel Dupré (1886).

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