Georges Bizet
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Bizet was born on 25th October 1838 in Paris. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptised Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. A child prodigy, he entered the prestigious Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday.
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 the opera Don Procopio. Apart from this stay in Rome, Bizet lived in the Paris area for his entire life.
On his return from from Rome, he dedicated himself to composition. In 1863 he composed the opera Les pêcheurs de perles for the Theatre-Lyrique. During this period Bizet also wrote the opera La jolie fille de Perth, his well-known L’arlésienne (written as incidental music for a play), and the piano piece Jeux d’enfants. He also wrote the romantic opera Djamileh, which is often seen as a percursor of Carmen. His first symphony, the symphony in C major, was written at the Paris Conservatory when he was only seventeen years old, evidently as a student assignment. It seems that Bizet completely forgot about it himself, and it was not discovered again until 1935, in the archives of the Conservatory library.
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Rockarnold
On tour in the underworld.
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adwth
he's on tour? i hope he comes to brazil
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JerryStar1804
Les Toreados <3
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SoLaLey
one of the sickest mofos to ever walk the earth
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PP667
Les Toreados
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Kaisercriss
Vie éternelle pour George Bizet
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Zoitz
That Carmen . ^_^
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Nyasa_Lake
Just fell in love with Carillon
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Complete Thematic Catalogue of Georges Bizet in one 28-hour Spotify playlist: http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2012/03/georges-bizet-complete-thematic.html
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Full libretto Vo / En : http://carmenopera.org
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ON TOOUURR!
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VK1990
Habanera
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fatherdemocracy
Suite No. 2: Farandole is quite beautiful!
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Neue_regel_
Even though I dislike a bit the romantic movement, I have to admit that Georges Bizet was a Genius.
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sheepareevil
"Danse Boheme" will always remind me of the epic larry david being an asshole montage in Curb.
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omnipotato
Which morons are scrobbling a song called "Carmen?" Unless it's the entire opera, which I highly doubt.
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Les Toreadors
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Lanny_Barbi
russian composers - lol
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SLAM2DARK
I'm very impressed, G. Bizet, did compositions that I knew my whole life, but I did discover only this month that he's the creator of them. His music is epic, not only Carmen, which is superb.
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