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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

1729 - 1817

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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ alɛksɑ̃dʁ mɔ̃siɲi]; (1729-10-17)17 October 1729 – (1817-01-14)14 January 1817) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican Philidor to have been the founder of a new musical genre, the opéra comique, laying a path for other French composers such as François-Adrien Boieldieu, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, and Jules Massenet in this genre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny is the 1,128th most popular composer (down from 1,104th in 2019), the 4,264th most popular biography from France (down from 4,217th in 2019) and the 150th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 1,128 out of 1,451. Before him are Adolf Bernhard Marx, Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Siegmund von Hausegger, Rudolf Friml, Avet Terterian, and W. C. Handy. After him are Brian Ferneyhough, Otto Jahn, Oskar Sala, Julius Benedict, Bruno Coulais, and Fumio Hayasaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 28. Before him are Michael von Melas, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Giuseppe Parini, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Michael Denis, and Pierre André de Suffren. After him are Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, Ivan Argunov, Clara Reeve, Fyodor Volkov, and Josiah Bartlett. Among people deceased in 1817, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 38. Before him are Jean-Sifrein Maury, William Gregor, Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Pattimura, Pál Kitaibel, and Anna Maria Lenngren. After him are Juan Meléndez Valdés, Martín Javier Mina y Larrea, and Thomas McKean.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 4,264 out of 6,770. Before him are Juliet Berto (1947), Roger Blin (1907), Fernand de Langle de Cary (1849), Honoré Charles Reille (1775), Auguste de Montferrand (1786), and Michèle Torr (1947). After him are Valérie Lemercier (1964), Ernest Goüin (1815), Clémence Poésy (1982), Eleanor of Normandy (1010), Georges Bonnet (1889), and Francis de Miomandre (1880).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ranks 150. Before him are Philippe Sarde (1948), Nicolas Dalayrac (1753), Tristan Murail (1947), Paul Taffanel (1844), Philippe Verdelot (null), and Jean Guillou (1930). After him are Bruno Coulais (1954), Ernest Reyer (1823), Antoine Duhamel (1925), Jean Langlais (1907), Jean Barraqué (1928), and Félicien David (1810).

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