Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1643 — 24 February 1704
Marc-Antoine Charpentier was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the prelude of his Te Deum H.146, Marche en rondeau, which has been used as the theme song fanfare before television broadcasts of the Eurovision Network since the inception of the European Broadcasting Union in 1954.
A memorial on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. This grave stands at coordinates 76, -3.
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