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   Jacques Offenbach ( / ˈɒfənbɑːx /; [n 1] 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly ...

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   Mar 29, 2024 · Jacques Offenbach (born June 20, 1819, Cologne, Prussia [Germany]—died October 5, 1880, Paris, France) was a composer who created a type of light burlesque French comic opera known as the opérette, which became one of the most characteristic artistic products of the period.

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   Jan 15, 2024 · Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) was a composer of German birth who took French citizenship and became famous in Paris for his comic operettas, a genre he created, and for the more serious opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. A virtuoso cellist, conductor, and prolific composer of stage works, Offenbach was hugely popular across Europe through the 1860s.

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   • Jacques Offenbach (born June 20, 1819, Cologne, Prussia [Germany]—died October 5, 1880, Paris, France) was a composer who created a type of light burlesque French comic opera known as the opérette, which became one of the most characteristic artistic products of the period.

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   Why is Jacques Offenbach considered the father of the operetta?

   • Jacques OffenbachThe German-French composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) can be considered the father of the operetta because his lighthearted works conquered the world and found imitators everywhere. Source for information on Jacques Offenbach: Encyclopedia of World Biography dictionary.

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   Why is Offenbach known as a composer?

   • Offenbach became a master and leading composer of operetta, and most of his works may be described as such. Indeed, the musicologist R. Orledge notes that Offenbach invented the term for his 1856 show La rose de Saint-Flour (Arnold, 1288).

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   • Offenbach could afford to live in a grand residence in Paris and buy a large holiday home on the coast at the fashionable resort of Étretat in Normandy. There were some critics of Offenbach and the ultra-comedic direction he had almost single-handedly swerved opera into.

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_compositions_byList of compositions by Jacques Offenbach - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of musical compositions by Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880). Offenbach is principally known for his operettas , of which he composed 98 between 1847 and 1880. He also wrote two opéras , Die Rheinnixen and his unfinished masterpiece Les contes d'Hoffmann .

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   Sep 26, 2023 · Jacques Offenbach (born Cologne 20 June 1819; died Paris 5 October 1880) Offenbach is a French composer of German origins (he became a naturalised French citizen in 1860) who wrote some of the most attractive and melodious music for the stage during the middle years of the nineteenth century.

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   Jacques Offenbach was a composer-entrepreneur in search of the perfect formula for the musical stage. When he found it, in La belle Hélène and La Périchole, it brought him fame and fortune. Had he lived to complete his last work, Les contes d’Hoffmann, he might have added a more serious masterpiece to his many earlier, infectiously tuneful ...

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   The German-French composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) can be considered the father of the operetta because his lighthearted works conquered the world and found imitators everywhere. Although he created a typically French musical idiom, Jacques, originally Jacob, Offenbach was born in Cologne, the son of a Jewish cantor and itinerant musician ...