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Georges Bizet was a Romantic era French composer best known for his final work, ‘Carmen,’ an opera in four acts. Trained at the Paris Conservatoire under well-known teachers like Antoine François Marmontel, Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, Charles Gounod and Fromental Halévy, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome at the age of nineteen.
Georges Bizet Early Life and Family. I was born in Paris on 25 October 1838, and was originally registered as Alexandre César Léopold. I was baptised ‘Georges’ on March 16, 1840, a name gifted to me by my godfather which stuck better than my original name. My father had been a hairdresser and wigmaker, but turned to a career of music when ...
Oct 25, 2022 · Born: 25 October 1838. Died: 3 June 1875. Biography Bizet was born in Paris, France at 28 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptized Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday.
Bizet was born at 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne in the 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1838. He was named Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, [ 1] but he was always known thereafter as Georges Bizet. His father Adolphe Armand Bizet (1810-86) was an amateur singer and composer, and his mother, Aimée Léopoldine Joséphine née Delsarte (1814 ...
Georges Bizet was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for his opera Carmen. Georges Bizet was was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptized Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday.
Georges Bizet. b Paris, October 25, 1838; d Bougival (France), June 3, 1875. Georges Bizet’s short career was primarily devoted to opera, reaching a remarkable climax in 1875 with Carmen. This iconic opera followed a succession of complete and incomplete works that had no great success during the composer’s lifetime.
Apr 18, 2013 · In almost all available English-language biographies, serious errors abound, often informed by romantic misconceptions surrounding the life of this remarkable musician. First published in 1991, Christoph Schwandt’s Georges Bizet: A Biography is now widely recognized as the definitive work on this misunderstood composer’s life.
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