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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.
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.
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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. [1]
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Jacques Offenbach is a name that resonates in the annals of classical music, specifically in the realm of operetta. A composer, cellist, and impresario of the Romantic period, his influence extends...
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.
