Photo: Jean-Christophe Windland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · credits
Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Philippe Hersant
Person · male · France · Rome · born 1948
French composer
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Also known as フィリップ・エルサン
Timeline
3 events✦ Award 2◦ Birth 1
1940s
1990s
2020s
Biography
English biography23 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1334649023
Biography
Philippe Hersant (French pronunciation: [filip ɛʁsɑ̃]; born 21 June 1948 in Rome) is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Philippe Hersant head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 3 | 95.4th |
| Timeline events | 3 | 73.3th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Maurice Ravel Prize | won | |
| 2020 | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | won | |
| — | Knight of the Legion of Honour | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hersant_%28cropped%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3380013genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3380013seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Hersantbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Hersant
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Jean-Christophe Windland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3380013 · MusicBrainz: aaab031c-a45a-4ab0-8be1-282984cb466c
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