Find out more about the greatest 19th Century French Musicians, including Jeanne Calment, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel and Erik Satie.
Claude Debussy22 August 1862
Composer
Erik Satie17 May 1866
Musician
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875
Composer
Hector Berlioz11 December 1803
Music Composer
Georges Bizet25 October 1838
Composer
Gabriel Fauré12 May 1845
French Composer & Pianist
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887
Musician
Charles Gounod17 June 1818
Composer
Paul Dukas01 October 1865
Composer
Cesar Franck10 December 1822
Composer, pianist, organist and music teacher
Jacques Offenbach20 June 1819
Composer, Cellist, Conductor, Impresario
Jules Massenet12 May 1842
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy16 December 1847
Military personnel, Spy, Composer
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Charles-Valentin Alkan30 November 1813
Composer, Pianist, Linguist, Translator, Music
Léo Delibes21 February 1836
Composer, Musicologist, University teacher
Darius Milhaud04 September 1892
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Lili Boulanger21 August 1893
Composer
Louis Vierne08 October 1870
Composer, Organist, University teacher
Gabriel Marcel07 December 1889
Playwright, Philosopher, Writer, University
Arthur Honegger10 March 1892
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, Film score
Reynaldo Hahn09 August 1874
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer, Music critic,
André Messager30 December 1853
Composer
Charles-Marie Widor21 February 1844
Composer, Organist, Music arranger, Music
Édouard Lalo27 January 1823
Composer
Cécile Chaminade08 August 1857
Pianist, Composer, Musician
Ernest Chausson20 January 1855
Conductor, Composer, Pianist
Emmanuel Chabrier18 January 1841
Composer, Pianist
Fromental Halévy27 May 1799
Composer
Jacques Ibert15 August 1890
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Musicologist, Film
Ignaz Pleyel18 June 1757
Composer
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Wanda Landowska05 July 1879
Harpsichordist
Albert Roussel05 April 1869
Composer
Marcel Dupré03 May 1886
Musician
Charles Koechlin27 November 1867
Composer
Rodolphe Kreutzer16 November 1766
Violinist
Théodore Dubois24 August 1837
Composer
Alphonse Allais20 October 1854
Writer, Poet, Journalist, Screenwriter, Painter,
Emil Waldteufel09 December 1837
Pianist
Pauline Garcia-Viardot18 July 1821
Adolphe-Charles Adam24 July 1803
Vincent d'Indy27 March 1851
Composer