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Time line for Music of France

Music of France
Styles	classical - folk - popular: hip hop - jazz - rock
History (Timeline and Samples)
Awards	NRJ Music Awards - Victoires de la musique
Charts	IFOP
Festivals	Printemps de Bourges
Media
National anthem	"La Marseillaise"
Regional music
Alsace - Auvergne - Aquitaine - Pays Basque - Béarn - Brittany - Burgundy - Corsica - Gascony - Languedoc - Limousin - Lorraine - Picardy - Poitou - Provence - Rousillon
Overseas music
French Guiana - French Polynesia - Martinique and Guadeloupe - Mayotte - New Caledonia - Réunion - St. Pierre and Miquelon - Tahiti - Wallis and Futuna

- fl c 1150s Léonin flourished
- c 1201 Léonin died
- fl c 1200 Pérotin flourished
- 1237 Adam de la Halle born
- c 1280 Jeu de Robin et Marion (Adam de la Halle) written
- 1281 Philippe de Vitry born
- 1288 Adam de la Halle died

The Fourteenth Century
- 1300 Guillaume de Machaut born
- 1361 Philippe de Vitry died
- 1365 Messe de Nostre Dame (Guillaume de Machaut) written
- 1377 Guillaume de Machaut died
- 1397 Guillaume Dufay born

The Fifteenth Century
- c 1400 Gilles Binchois born
- 1410 Johannes Ockeghem born
- c 1430 Antoine Busnois born
- c 1450 Josquin des Prez born
- 1452 Pierre de La Rue born
- 1460 Gilles Binchois died
- 1474 Guillaume Dufay died
- c 1485 Clément Janequin born
- 1492 Antoine Busnois died
- 1497 Johannes Ockeghem died

The Sixteenth Century
- 1503 Miserere (Josquin) written
- 1515 Missa Pange lingua (Josquin) written
- 1521 Josquin des Prez died
- 1518 Pierre de La Rue died
- 1558 Clément Janequin died

The Seventeenth Century
- 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully born
- 1643 Marc-Antoine Charpentier born
- 1656 Marin Marais born
- 1668 François Couperin born
- 1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau born
- 1676 Atys (Lully) written
- 1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully died
- 1690 Te Deum (Marc-Antoine Charpentier) written

The Eighteenth Century
- 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier died
- 1714 Opéra-Comique established
- 1728 Marin Marais died
- 1733 François Couperin died
- 1736 Les Indes galantes (Rameau) written
- 1763 Étienne Méhul born
- 1764 Jean-Philippe Rameau died
- 1775 François-Adrien Boieldieu born
- 1782 Daniel Auber born
- 1791 Ferdinand Hérold born
- 1799 Fromental Halévy born

The Nineteenth Century
- 1803 Hector Berlioz born
- 1803 Adolphe Adam born
- 1817 Étienne Méhul died
- 1818 Charles Gounod born
- 1822 César Franck born
- 1823 Édouard Lalo born
- 1828 La Fille Mal Gardée (Ferdinand Hérold) written
- 1830 Symphonie fantastique (Berlioz) written
- 1833 Ferdinand Hérold died
- 1834 François-Adrien Boieldieu died
- 1835 Camille Saint-Saëns born
- 1836 Léo Delibes born
- 1838 Georges Bizet born
- 1841 Emmanuel Chabrier born
- 1842 Jules Massenet born
- 1843 Le Carnaval romain (Berlioz) written
- 1844 Charles-Marie Widor born
- 1845 Gabriel Fauré born
- 1848 Henri Duparc (composer) born
- 1851 Vincent d'Indy born
- 1856 Adolphe Adam died
- 1858 Les Troyens (Berlioz) written
- 1859 Faust (opera) (Gounod) written
- 1860 Gustave Charpentier born
- 1862 Fromental Halévy died
- 1862 Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz) written
- 1863 Les pêcheurs de perles (Bizet) written
- 1866 Erik Satie born
- 1862 Claude Debussy born
- 1869 Hector Berlioz died
- 1869 Albert Roussel born
- 1870 Coppélia (Delibes) written
- 1871 Daniel Auber died
- 1874 Symphonie Espagnole (Lalo) written
- 1875 Georges Bizet died
- 1875 Maurice Ravel born
- 1875 Carmen (Bizet) written
- 1877 Samson and Delilah (opera) (Saint-Saens) written
- 1879 Joseph Canteloube born
- 1881 Orchestre Lamoureux founded
- 1883 Edgard Varèse born
- 1883 España (Chabrier) written
- 1884 Manon (Massenet) written
- 1886 Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns) written
- 1886 Violin Sonata in A major (Franck) written
- 1887 Symphonie pour orgue No. 5 (Widor) written
- 1888 Gymnopédie No 1 (Satie) written
- 1888 Le roi d'Ys (Lalo) written
- 1890 Clair de Lune (Debussy) written
- 1891 Léo Delibes died
- 1890 Requiem (Fauré) written
- 1890 César Franck died
- 1892 Édouard Lalo died
- 1892 Darius Milhaud born
- 1893 Charles Gounod died
- 1894 Emmanuel Chabrier died
- 1894 Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy) written
- 1897 The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) written

The Twentieth Century
- 1900 Louise (opera) (Gustave Charpentier) written
- 1903 String Quartet (Ravel) written
- 1905 Introduction and Allegro (Ravel) written
- 1908 Olivier Messiaen born
- 1908 Stéphane Grappelli born
- 1908 Rapsodie espagnole (Ravel) written
- 1908 Golliwogg's Cakewalk (Debussy) written
- 1910 La fille aux cheveux de lin (Debussy) written
- 1912 Jules Massenet died
- 1912 Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel) written
- 1915 Édith Piaf born
- 1917 Parade (ballet) (Satie) written
- 1918 Claude Debussy died
- 1920 La Valse (Ravel) written
- 1921 Camille Saint-Saëns died
- 1924 Gabriel Fauré died
- 1925 Erik Satie died
- 1927 Amériques (Varese) written
- 1928 Boléro (Ravel) written
- 1930 Chants d'Auvergne (Canteloube) written
- 1931 Vincent d'Indy died
- 1931 Ionisation (Varèse) written
- 1932 Concerto for Two Pianos (Poulenc) written
- 1933 Henri Duparc (composer) died
- 1934 Jacques Loussier born
- 1937 Maurice Ravel died
- 1937 Charles-Marie Widor died
- 1937 Albert Roussel died
- 1938 Organ Concerto (Poulenc) written
- 1942 Jean-Luc Ponty born
- 1946 La Vie en rose (Piaf) released
- 1948 Turangalîla-Symphonie (Messiaen) written
- 1956 Gustave Charpentier died
- 1956 Non, je ne regrette rien (Piaf) released
- 1956 Improvisations (Stéphane Grappelli album) released
- 1957 Joseph Canteloube died
- 1963 Édith Piaf died
- 1965 Edgard Varèse died
- 1973 Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (Magma (band)) released
- 1974 Darius Milhaud died
- 1977 Enigmatic Ocean (Jean-Luc Ponty) released
- 1992 Olivier Messiaen died
- 1997 Stéphane Grappelli died