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Richard Clayderman
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French pianist
OverviewAI-generated
Richard Clayderman, born Philippe Robert Luc Pagès in 1953 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, is a French male pianist, composer, and music arranger. He began his work period in 1976 and performs in the easy listening genre. His notable works include "Ballade pour Adeline," "Richard Clayderman Songbook," "The piano solos of Richard Clayderman," "The Best Of Richard Clayderman - Easy Piano," and "Concerto." He has been associated with the record label EMI.
Clayderman speaks French and is categorized under genres such as instrumental, classical, and relaxing. His music has accumulated 4,621,639 plays and 222,980 listeners on Last.fm. He maintains an official website and has 737,000 social media followers.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Richard Clayderman Songbook
- Ballade Pour Adeline
- The piano solos of Richard Clayderman
- The Best Of Richard Clayderman - Easy Piano
- Concerto
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1953
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 222,980
- Total plays
- 4,621,639
Tags
Richard Clayderman (born Philippe Pagès on December 28, 1953, Paris) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums, including renditions and arrangements of popular music, French chansons, and popular piano works of Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart. Most of his recordings focus on popular music in general and orchestral arrangements of well-known romantic songs in particular, such as Yesterday, The Sound of Silence and Memory, rather than on Jazz or Classical Music. <a href="https://www.last
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,413x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,266x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,672x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,311x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,656x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 20th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- music arranger
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Ballade pour Adeline
- Genre
- easy listening
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- EMI
- Official website
- www.richardclaydermanofficial.com
- Image
- Richard Clayderman.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Richard Clayderman
- date of birth
- 1953-12-28
- birth name
- Philippe Robert Luc Pagès
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- pseudonym
- Richard Clayderman
- name in native language
- Richard Clayderman
- social media followers
- 737000
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Clayderman ( French pronunciation: [ʁiʃaʁ kledɛʁman]; born Philippe Pagès French pronunciation: [filip paʒɛs], 28 December 1953 in Paris) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the compositions of Paul de Senneville, Olivier Toussaint and Marc Minier, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie soundtracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of popular works of classical music.
Early life
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