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Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975) is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ, and composer. He is best known as one half of the French house music duo Daft Punk, alongside Guy-Manuel ...
Date of birth: 3 January 1975
Nationality: French
Occupation: Electronic Musician
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th ...
Date of birth: 4 September 1892
Date of death: 22 June 1974
Nationality: French
Occupation: Singer
Gender: Male
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(Achille) Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most ...
Date of birth: 22 August 1862
Date of death: 25 March 1918
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ComSE (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely ...
Date of birth: 17 June 1882
Date of death: 6 April 1971
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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Pierre Robert (c. 1618 – 30 December 1699) was a French composer and early master of the French grand motet.
Date of birth: 1625
Date of death: 30 December 1699
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although ...
Date of birth: 7 March 1875
Date of death: 28 December 1937
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
Height: 5' (152 cm)
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Erik Satie
French composer and pianist (1866–1925)
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Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. Satie was an influential artist in the late 19th- and early ...
Date of birth: 17 May 1866
Date of death: 1 July 1925
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has ...
Date of birth: 1 March 1810
Date of death: 17 October 1849
Nationality: Polish
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war ...
Date of birth: 26 March 1925
Date of death: 5 January 2016
Nationality: French
Occupation: Bassist
Gender: Male
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Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Ca ...
Date of birth: 9 October 1835
Date of death: 16 December 1921
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has won many awards, including two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest ...
Date of birth: 23 August 1961
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Iannis Xenakis (also spelt as Yannis Xenakis) (Greek: Γιάννης (Ιάννης) Ξενάκης 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer ...
Date of birth: 29 May 1922
Date of death: 4 February 2001
Nationality: Greek
Occupation: Architect
Gender: Male
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Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces ...
Date of birth: 11 December 1803
Date of death: 8 March 1869
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by ...
Date of birth: 25 October 1838
Date of death: 3 June 1875
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Prince Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac (19 April 1834 – 8 August 1901) was a French aristocrat and composer.
Date of birth: 19 April 1834
Date of death: 8 August 1901
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Reynaldo Hahn (August 9, 1874 – January 28, 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, theatre director, and salon singer. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the ...
Date of birth: 9 August 1874
Date of death: 28 January 1947
Nationality: Venezuelan
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Jacques Offenbach (, , 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s ...
Date of birth: 20 June 1819
Date of death: 4 October 1880
Nationality: German
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced ...
Date of birth: 12 May 1845
Date of death: 4 November 1924
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, , December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically ...
Date of birth: 10 December 1908
Date of death: 27 April 1992
Nationality: French
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets ...
Date of birth: 7 January 1899
Date of death: 30 January 1963
Nationality: French
Occupation: Musician
Gender: Male
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