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Pierre Attaingnant

1494 - 1552

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Pierre Attaingnant or Attaignant (c. 1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French music publisher, active in Paris. He was one of the first to print music by single-impression printing, greatly reducing the labor involved, and he published music by more than 150 composers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Attaingnant is the 750th most popular composer (up from 815th in 2019), the 3,025th most popular biography from France (up from 3,237th in 2019) and the 107th most popular French Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 750 out of 1,451. Before him are Aristides Quintilianus, Michel Blavet, Domenico Gabrielli, Boris Asafyev, Carlos Chávez, and Franchinus Gaffurius. After him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Manuel Cardoso, Josef Tal, Matthias Weckmann, Isaak Dunayevsky, and Franz Lachner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 22. Before him are Antonio de Mendoza, Francesco Maurolico, Christina Gyllenstierna, Saitō Dōsan, Domingo de Soto, and Hans Tausen. After him are Ambrosius Holbein, Johannes Agricola, Qiu Ying, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, and David Beaton. Among people deceased in 1552, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 12. Before him are Basil Fool for Christ, Sebastian Münster, Paolo Giovio, Olaus Petri, Antonio de Mendoza, and Andreas Osiander. After him are Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, and Qiu Ying.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 3,025 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Babinet (1794), Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836), Roger Walkowiak (1927), Eugène Schneider (1805), Ferdinand Zecca (1864), and Claude Bolling (1930). After him are Decentius (300), Jean-Jacques Henner (1829), Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau (1760), Adolf Wagner (1890), Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), and Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (1831).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Pierre Attaingnant ranks 107. Before him are Claude Balbastre (1724), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), Augusta Holmès (1847), Michel Corrette (1707), Benjamin Godard (1849), and Michel Blavet (1700). After him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), Charles Tournemire (1870), André Caplet (1878), George Onslow (1784), Louise Bertin (1805), and Napoléon Henri Reber (1807).

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