Timeline of trends in French music

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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 Quartet in F Major (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