biography
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Bizet, Georges
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originally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet
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pronunciation:
[beezay]
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| lived:
| (1838–75)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Paris, France. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Halévy, whose daughter he married in 1869, and in Italy. Although he won the Prix de Rome in 1857 with Le Docteur miracle, his efforts to achieve a reputation as an operatic composer were largely unsuccessful. His incidental music to Daudet's play L'Arlésienne (1872) was remarkably popular and survives in the form of two orchestral suites. His masterpiece was the four-act opera Carmen, completed just before his untimely death from heart disease. A symphony in C was first performed in 1935. |
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