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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 beyond his own creations to the works of other eminent composers like Johann Strauss, Jr. and Arthur Sullivan.
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 - Opéra national de Paris. Jacques Offenbach Composer. Season 23/24 Artist – Season 24/25 Artist. Biography. Born on June 20, 1819 in Cologne, son of a synagogue cantor, Jacques (Jacob) Offenbach began composing at the age of nine and showed great talent for the cello.
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