Carmen
Georges Bizet
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Browse piano sheets by Georges Bizet on Zen Virtual Piano. Georges Bizet was born on 25 October 1838 in Paris, into a family of musicians. The son of a singing teacher, he had his parents as his first masters until the age of nine, studied piano at an early age and was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Marmontel (piano), Benoist (organ), Zimmermann (harmony) and Halévy (composition). He also worked with Gounod, who felt a lively sympathy for him. After the war of 1870 Bizet was named chorus master at the Opéra, but a year later he preferred the post of chef de chant at the Opéra-Comique, which staged Djamileh (1872) and commissioned Carmen. Preferring a post at one theatre to a post at another suggests how closely his career was tied to the Parisian stage. An orchestral suite derived from L’Arlésienne, performed at the Concerts Pasdeloup in December, was instantly popular. A suite derived from L’Arlésienne becoming instantly popular shows how a piece can find an audience beyond its first setting. Carmen is an opera in four acts by Bizet, with a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, and it premiered on 3 March 1875. The premiere of Carmen was another failure. A first night that failed for an opera now among the most performed in the world marks the distance between a premiere and a repertory. The Larousse encyclopedia says Bizet composed his scores as a painter makes canvases, creating and carefully balancing personal colours, and it singles out the clarity and learned character of his writing in the multi-voice passages, such as the Act II quintet of Carmen. The popularity of L’Arlésienne, the Symphony in C, Jeux d’enfants, Les Pêcheurs de perles and above all Carmen, one of the most performed operas in the world today, makes him one of the most famous French musicians. A composer likened to a painter, and remembered for works as different as a symphony and an orchestral suite derived from L’Arlésienne, suggests an ear for colour that carried across genres.
Browse piano sheets by Georges Bizet on Zen Virtual Piano.
Georges Bizet was born on 25 October 1838 in Paris, into a family of musicians. The son of a singing teacher, he had his parents as his first masters until the age of nine, studied piano at an early age and was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Marmontel (piano), Benoist (organ), Zimmermann (harmony) and Halévy (composition). He also worked with Gounod, who felt a lively sympathy for him.
After the war of 1870 Bizet was named chorus master at the Opéra, but a year later he preferred the post of chef de chant at the Opéra-Comique, which staged Djamileh (1872) and commissioned Carmen. Preferring a post at one theatre to a post at another suggests how closely his career was tied to the Parisian stage. An orchestral suite derived from L’Arlésienne, performed at the Concerts Pasdeloup in December, was instantly popular. A suite derived from L’Arlésienne becoming instantly popular shows how a piece can find an audience beyond its first setting.
Carmen is an opera in four acts by Bizet, with a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, and it premiered on 3 March 1875. The premiere of Carmen was another failure. A first night that failed for an opera now among the most performed in the world marks the distance between a premiere and a repertory.
The Larousse encyclopedia says Bizet composed his scores as a painter makes canvases, creating and carefully balancing personal colours, and it singles out the clarity and learned character of his writing in the multi-voice passages, such as the Act II quintet of Carmen. The popularity of L’Arlésienne, the Symphony in C, Jeux d’enfants, Les Pêcheurs de perles and above all Carmen, one of the most performed operas in the world today, makes him one of the most famous French musicians. A composer likened to a painter, and remembered for works as different as a symphony and an orchestral suite derived from L’Arlésienne, suggests an ear for colour that carried across genres.
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Bizet’s opera Carmen premiered on 3 March 1875, and the premiere was another failure.
At the Paris Conservatoire, with Marmontel for piano, Benoist for organ, Zimmermann for harmony and Halévy for composition.
L’Arlésienne, the Symphony in C, Jeux d’enfants, Les Pêcheurs de perles and above all Carmen.