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16-455: The name pop may refer to: [Adelheid Popp] (1869–1939), Austrian pop star André Popp (1924–2014), French composer, arranger and screenwriter Angela C. Popp (born 1968), American director, screenwriter and songwriter Alexander Popp (born 1976), German tennis player Alexandra Popp (born 1991), German football player Bernard Ferdinand Popp (1917–2014), American Bishop of

32-639: A dignified welcome, had prepared a triumphal arch over the Pont Neuf bridge. That night, the Emperor learned of the defeat of General Dupont at Bailem. The General's surrender, which seriously compromised the French army's position in Spain , threw the Emperor into a deep rage. If word is to be believed, the Emperor smashed an earthenware vase placed in front of him. Fontenay-le-Comte was the birthplace of: Fontenay-le-Comte

48-942: A pioneer of the discipline of forensic science Harold Popp (1903-1969), American pharmacist, businessman, and politician Jim Popp (born 1964), manager of the Montreal Alouettes football club Julius Popp (born 1973), German artist Lothar Popp (1887–1980), German revolutionary Lucia Popp (1939–1993), Slovak opera singer Mișu Popp (1827–1892), Romanian painter and muralist Nathaniel (Popp) (born 1940), Romanian-American bishop Wolfgang Popp (born 1959), German tennis player Carol Szathmari (1812–1887), called Carol Popp de Szathmary in Romanian; painter and photographer Chelsea Popp (born 1989), NYC Socialite [REDACTED] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Popp (surname) . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

64-474: Is on Wikidata Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Andr%C3%A9 Popp André Charles Jean Popp (19 February 1924 – 10 May 2014) was a French composer, arranger and screenwriter. Popp was born into a family of German-Dutch background, in Fontenay-le-Comte , Vendée. He started his career as a church organist , filling

80-454: Is the composer of Piccolo, Saxo et Compagnie , to a text by Jean Broussolle  [ fr ] , a musical tale for children intended as a guide to the instruments of the orchestra and the rudiments of harmony. In 1957, Popp released Delirium in Hi-Fi (originally titled Elsa Popping et sa musique sidérante ), a collaboration with Pierre Fatosme , an experiment in the recording techniques of

96-533: The Eurovision Song Contest : " Tom Pillibi ", which won the competition for France when it was sung by 18-year-old newcomer Jacqueline Boyer in 1960 , " Le Chant de Mallory ", the 1964 French entry, performed by another newcomer, Rachel , and " L'amour est bleu " (Love is Blue) which came fourth for Luxembourg in 1967 , but which later became a number-one hit instrumental in the US for Paul Mauriat . Popp

112-435: The surname Popp . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Popp&oldid=1258399157 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Commons category link

128-540: The 1950s. Popp had to adapt to these new trends. He worked almost exclusively with female singers during this period, preferably the Lolita types, such as Chantal Goya, but also with Françoise Hardy. "Love is Blue", a song Vicky Leandros performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 on behalf of Luxembourg, also recorded by Claudine Longet , became internationally popular. In these recordings, Popp does not sacrifice

144-527: The Paris suburb of Puteaux on 10 May 2014, the very day that his last interview, with Benoît Duteurtre, was broadcast on France Musique. Fontenay-le-Comte The river Vendée flows through the town. The town has an area of 34 km (13 sq mi). Fontenay was in existence as early as the time of the Gauls . The affix of comte is said to have been applied to it when it was taken by King Louis IX from

160-527: The Roman Catholic Church Bill Popp (1877–1909), American baseball player Cynthia J. Popp (born 1962), American television director and producer Deborah Ann Popp (born 1993), American actress Franz Josef Popp (1886–1954), Founder of BMW Fritz Popp (born 1940), German football player Fritz-Albert Popp (1938–2018), German biophysicist Georg Popp  [ de ] (1861–1943), German chemist and

176-523: The Vendée (1793). From 1790 to 1806 it was capital of the Vendée department. At Maison Laval on rue Rabelais , a townhouse built at the end of the 18th Century, Emperor Napoleon 1st and his wife, Joséphine, spent the night of 7–8 August 1808. On their way from Rochefort to Nantes , they had stopped off in the Bas-Poitou capital of Fontenay-le-Comte where they were the guests of Mayor Laval who, to give them

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192-733: The family of Lusignan and given to his brother Alphonse, count of Poitou , under whom it became capital of Bas-Poitou. Ceded to the Plantagenets by the Treaty of Brétigny , in 1360 it was retaken in 1372 by Duguesclin . It suffered repeated capture during the Religious Wars of the 16th century, was dismantled in 1621 and was occupied both by the Republicans and the Royalist Vendeans during the Revolt in

208-598: The music recording industry, becoming a sought-after arranger. He crafted orchestrations for Rive Gauche legend Juliette Gréco that were jazzy, urbane, vibrant, quirky, and occasionally cartoonish. The arrival of rock and roll in France and, consequentially, yé-yé music , dramatically changed the expectations of French audiences and record buyers, especially the younger ones, who were more interested in singers like Johnny Hallyday than Jacques Brel, although chansonniers such as Brel ultimately remained just as popular as they had been in

224-595: The place of the abbot who had been called up to serve in World War II in 1939. Popp studied music at the Saint Joseph Institute . In the 1950s he worked for the French radio station RTF , composing music for the Club d'Essai and, from 1953 to 1960, La Bride sur le cou . He orchestrated a number of Juliette Gréco albums in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1960s, he co-wrote, with Pierre Cour , three songs for

240-645: The sophistication of his 1950s orchestrations, but rather than animate the songs, he seems to set the tone, the mood, painting a colorful picture. Sometimes there are silky, smooth strings; often there is harpsichord and oboe and flute; elsewhere adventurous brassy fanfares; occasionally an ethereal soprano chorus; always some magical musical final touch, like the faint, quavering harmonica in "Manchester et Liverpool". Marie Laforêt's voice fit perfectly in André Popp's 1960s soundscapes and he created more of them for her than for her contemporaries. Popp died at his apartment in

256-457: The time. Popp is the author of the pop song " Manchester et Liverpool  [ fr ] " sung by Marie Laforêt . Its melody gained fame in the former Soviet Union as the background music to the Vremya television news programme's weather forecast since the early 1970s. During the 1950s, Popp created unique space-age instrumental recordings and by the early 1960s had built a strong reputation in

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