# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henri-joseph-rigel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:27:53.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henri-joseph-rigel"
name: "Henri-Joseph Rigel"
slug: "henri-joseph-rigel"
description: "Henri-Joseph Rigel was a German-born composer of the Classical era who spent most of his working life in France. He was born in Wertheim am Main where his father was musical intendant to the local prince. After an education in the Holy Roman Empire, where his teachers included Niccolò Jommelli, Rigel moved to Paris in 1767. He quickly acquired a reputation in musical circles and published harpsichord pieces, string quartets, symphonies and concertos. He began composing for the Concert Spirituel, most notably four hiérodrames : La sortie d'Egypte (1774), La destruction de Jericho (1778), Jephté (1783) and Les Macchabées. These show the influence of Christoph Willibald Gluck, and Gluck himself praised La sortie d'Égypte. Between 1778 and 1799 Rigel also wrote 14 operas, including the opéra comique Le savetier et le financier (1778)."
tagline: "French composer of German birth (1741-1799)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rigel_Musicien.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1741-02-09"
deathDate: "1799-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.539921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هنرى چوزيف ريجيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Henri Joseph Rigel"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Joseph_Rigel"
    title: "Henri-Joseph Rigel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Joseph_Rigel"
    title: "Henri-Joseph Rigel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Joseph_Rigel"
    title: "Henri-Joseph Rigel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Joseph_Rigel"
    title: "Henri-Joseph Rigel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Joseph_Rigel"
    title: "Henri-Joseph Rigel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Joseph_Rigel"
    title: "Henri-Joseph Rigel"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cf89d1bb-98fc-4089-9cb8-6ea02b3e952b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q475990"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump