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Jacques Offenbach. 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 ...
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. He was the son of a cantor at the Cologne Synagogue, Isaac Juda ...
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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 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 Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss Jr. and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works ...
Learn about the life and career of Jacques Offenbach, the composer of Orphée aux Enfers, La Belle Hélène, and other opéra-bouffe classics. Discover his influence on the musical scene of the Second Empire and his legacy in the Paris Opera repertoire.
Learn about the life and works of Jacques Offenbach, the German-French composer who created the operetta genre and popularized the can-can dance. Find out how he became a musical sensation in Paris and beyond, and read his memoirs of his trip to America.
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. While his final work, the opéra fantastique The ...
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