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This is an alphabetical list of composers from France This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (UK: / ˈ m ɛ s i æ̃ /, [1] US: / m ɛ ˈ s j æ̃, m eɪ ˈ s j æ̃, m ɛ ˈ s j ɒ̃ /; [2] [3] [4] French: [ɔlivje øʒɛn pʁɔspɛʁ ʃaʁl mɛsjɑ̃]; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, or were citizens of France. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Medieval Leonin (c. 1150 – 1201) Perotin (1160 – 1230) Adam de la Halle (1240 – 1287) Philippe de Vitry (1291 ...
Search. Appearance. ... 1908 – 2 July 2002) was a French organist and composer. ... upper voices singing the famous words from Chapter 8 of the Song of Songs in ...
Offenbach by Nadar. Jacques Offenbach (/ ˈ ɒ f ən b ɑː x /; [n 1] 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (French: [danjɛl fʁɑ̃swa ɛspʁi obɛːʁ]; 29 January 1782 – 12 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally when the family's fortunes failed in 1820.
Gustave Charpentier (French: [ɡystav ʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. [ 1 ] Life and career
Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, [1] he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin. [2] Little is known about Rameau's early years.