Introduction
A list of selected pictures of real and invented French composers, from the list found here.
Gallery of French Composers
Jacques Bonneville, 1388 Pierre Broussard, 1391 Thomas Marois, 1396 Philippe Ouelette, 1401 Michel Perrin, 1406 Maurice Macon, 1412 Guillaume Collet, 1416 Henri Riopelle, 1424
Born 1396-1470
Francois Cottier, 1433 Guillaume Longeau, 1442 Jacques Fraisier, 1454 Francois Morais, 1466 Gregoire Humbrier, 1479 Charles Reverin, 1487 Thomas Legaultier, 1499 Georges Bachardeau, 1505
Born 1485-1556
Clement Janequin, 1523 Jean Lussier, 1541 Pierre Seguin, 1553 Francois Michaud, 1565 Michel Taillard, 1571 Francois Lapoint, 1580 Claude Therien, 1587 Bernard D’Allaire, 1595
Baroque (c1600-c1760)
Born 1566-1618
Francois Villevieille, 1608 Louis Hertel, 1612 Jacques Roussin, 1617 Joseph Capelle, 1621 Christophe Phenix, 1624 Michel Lacasse, 1629 Francois Nazaire, 1632 Jean Sopher, 1637 Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres, 1641 Nicolas Robert, 1645 Pierre Julien, 1653 Stephane Morel, 1657
Born 1626-1700
Gaston Philippe Cormier, 1666 Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1673 Francois Couteau, 1680 Mathieu Nolette, 1690 Marin Marais, 1704 Francois Couperin, 1708 Andre Breguet, 1715 Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1723 Louis Bissonnette, 1726 Charles Lafleche, 1732 Louis-Claude Daquin, 1736 Michel Blavet, 1743
Classical era (c1730-c1820)
Georges Jandreau, 1752 Louis Georges Cadieux, 1757 Joseph Archambeault, 1763 Jacques Chacon, 1771 Louis Robitaille, 1774 Andre Seurin, 1778 Nicolas Plourd, 1781 Georges Mondragon, 1785 Francois Devereaux, 1788 Vincent Crepeau, 1791 Nicolas Dalayrac, 1795 Etienne Mehul, 1805
Romantic (c1800-c1910)
Born 1771-1818
Francois Xavier Monceaux, 1812 Marc-Antoine Dagenais, 1818 Georges Parrot, 1824 Charles St. Jacques, 1835 Andre Gerard, 1840 Hector Berlioz, 1844 Guillaume Moufflet, 1856 Charles Gounod, 1859
Born 1819-1860
Jacques Offenbach, 1862 Jacques Beaudoin, 1867 Georges Bizet, 1870 Camille Saint-Saens, 1875 Emmanuel Chabrier, 1882 Gabriel Faure, 1885 Thomas Campeau, 1894 Gustave Charpentier, 1898
Modern and Contemporary (c1880-????)
Born 1862-1902
Claude Debussy, 1902 Erik Satie, 1907 Joseph Devine, 1910 Maurice Ravel, 1917 Louis Adrien Durrant, 1921 Edgard Varese, 1924 Jacques Ibert, 1930 Darius Milhaud, 1935 Jacques Nadeau, 1938 Francis Poulenc, 1941 Joseph Abair, 1943 Maurice Durufle, 1946
Born 1905-1955
Gaston Marcantel, 1948 Olivier Messiaen, 1951 Raymond Dubree, 1955 Georges Budreau, 1960 Pierre Boulez, 1965 Thomas DeRouselle, 1968 Francois de Laux, 1973 Robert Granger, 1976 Charles Berthelot, 1979 Antoine Mallette, 1983 Robert Cadot, 1987 Michel Callier, 1997
