Jacques Offenbach
1819-06-20
| Köln
1880-10-05
| Paris
61 years old
Born: 1819-06-20 (Cologne, Germany)
Died: 1889-10-05 (Paris, France)
Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of German-Jewish ancestry, he was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory.
Offenbach's numerous operettas, such as «Orphée aux enfers» (Orpheus in the Underworld) and «La belle Hélène», were extremely popular in both France and the English-speaking world during the 1850s and 1860s. They combined political and cultural satire with witty grand opera parodies. His popularity in France went down during the 1870s after the Second Empire, and he fled France, but during the last years of his life, his popularity rebounded, and several of his operettas are still performed. While his name remains associated most closely with the French operetta and the Second Empire, it is Offenbach's one fully operatic masterpiece, «Les contes d'Hoffmann» (The Tales of Hoffmann), composed at the end of his career, that has become the most familiar of Offenbach's works in major opera houses.
Offenbach was music director of the Comédie-Française for 7 years.
Died: 1889-10-05 (Paris, France)
Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of German-Jewish ancestry, he was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory.
Offenbach's numerous operettas, such as «Orphée aux enfers» (Orpheus in the Underworld) and «La belle Hélène», were extremely popular in both France and the English-speaking world during the 1850s and 1860s. They combined political and cultural satire with witty grand opera parodies. His popularity in France went down during the 1870s after the Second Empire, and he fled France, but during the last years of his life, his popularity rebounded, and several of his operettas are still performed. While his name remains associated most closely with the French operetta and the Second Empire, it is Offenbach's one fully operatic masterpiece, «Les contes d'Hoffmann» (The Tales of Hoffmann), composed at the end of his career, that has become the most familiar of Offenbach's works in major opera houses.
Offenbach was music director of the Comédie-Française for 7 years.
Real Name
JACOB OFFENBACH
Country
FRANCE
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FRENCH COMPOSER
ART SONGS
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I. OFFENBACH
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J. オッフェンバック
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J.S. OFFENBACH
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JAC. OFFENBACH
JACOB OFFENBACH
JACQU OFFENBACH
JACQUE OFFENBACH
JACQUES A.I. OFFENBACH
JACQUES AUGUSTE IGNA OFFENBACH
JACQUES AUGUSTE OFFENBACH
JACQUES L. OFFENBACH
JACQUES OFFENBACH (1819-1880)
JACQUES S. OFFENBACH
JACQUOS OFFENBACH
JAKUB OFFENBACH
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ジャック・オフェンバック = JACQUES OFFENBACH
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ALBUMS (109)
Cello Concertos
2019
classical
Romantique
2007
classical
La Belle Hélène
2001
classical
French Cancan
1993
classical
Les Brigands
1986
classical
Pariser Leben
1983
classical
Pomme d'api
1983
classical
Barbe-Bleue
1982
classical
Airs célèbres
1980
classical
La Périchole
1969
classical
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