Biography de georges bizet
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Georges Bizet
BIOGRAPHY
Georges Bizet is considered to be a great French opera composer. Both of his parents were professional musicians. Georges’ mother was a pianist. Georges’ father was a composer and a singing teacher and gave Georges his first music lessons at the age of 4.
Georges’ talent for music was displayed early in his childhood. When Georges was 9, he entered the Paris Conservatory of Music. He studied harmony and composition and took lessons on the piano and the organ. He was considered a master of the piano at age 14, won a First Prize for piano, and was encouraged to write compositions for the piano. He wrote “Jeux d’enfants,” a suite for piano featuring four hands (two people playing the same piano), as well as 150 other compositions for the piano. He won several awards while at the conservatory: the Offenbach First Prize for comic opera and also the Grand Prix de Rome in 1857.
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Georges Bizet Biography Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 - June 3, 1875), was a French composer of the romantic era known for his opera Carmen. Born Alexandre-C�sar-L�opold, but baptized Georges, Bizet, a child prodigy, entered the prestegious Paris Conservatory of Music at the unheard-of age of nine. In 1857 he shared a prize offered by Jacques Offenbach for a setting of the one-act operetta Le Docteur Miracle and won the Prix de Rome. As per the conditions of the scholarship, he studied in Rome for three years. There, his talent began to mature with such works as Symphony in C (Roma) and the opera Don Procopio. Besides this stay in Rome, Bizet lived in the Paris area for his entire life. Following his stay in Rome, he returned to Paris where he dedicated himself to composition. Early into his return to Paris, Georges' mother died. In 1863 he composed the opera Les p�cheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) for the Theatre-Lyrique. During this period Bizet also wrote the opera La jolie
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Biography
Known today for just a handful of well-loved pieces, Georges Bizet was a prolific composer with a huge enthusiasm for exploring new stories and themes in his stage works. Unfortunately, he also suffered a tortured inability to complete his scores, and many of his finished works were never performed during his lifetime. Music was part of Bizet’s life from birth. His father and uncle were both singing teachers, and it was the latter who introduced his nephew to music and ideas outside the conventional French tastes of the time. Bizet went on to study at the Paris Conservatoire from 1848, and his entry at the age of only nine marked him out as a rare talent. Bizet was still a lärling, aged just 17, when he composed his Symphony in C (1855), one of the few purely orchestral pieces that the opera-loving composer penned. It reveals an already fertile melodic imagination, yet despite its elegance and charm, the symphony had to wait 80 years for its premiere. Today, though, it’s