Au Fond Du Templo Saint Duet For Tenor From The Pearl Fish by Georges Bizet
Artist Biography For Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet 1838–1875 Was A French Composer And Pianist Of The Romantic Era. 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 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. Upon Its First Performance It Was Immediately Hailed As A Junior Masterwork And A Welcome Addition To The Early Romantic Period Repertoire. He Symphony Is Noteworthy For Bearing A Strong Stylistic Resemblance To The Music Of Franz Schubert Whose Work Was Virtually Unknown In Paris At That Time With The Possible Exception Of A Few Of His Songs . A Second Symphony "Roma" Was Not Completed. Bizet's Best-Known Work Is His 1875 Opera Carmen Which Was Based On An 1846 Novel Of The Same Name By Prosper Mérimée. Influenced By Giuseppe Verdi Bizet Composed The Title Role In Carmen For A Mezzo-Soprano. The Opera Was Not An Immediate Success And Bizet Became Despondent Over The Perceived Failure But Praise Came From Such Luminaries As Camille Saint-Saëns Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky And Claude Debussy Who Recognised Its Greatness. Their Views Were Prophetic As The Public Eventually Made Carmen One Of The Most Popular Works In Operatic History. Although Best Known As A Composer Bizet Was Also A Fine Pianist Whose Playing Was Praised By No Less A Judge Than Franz Liszt. After Bizet Flawlessly Sightread A Complex Piece Liszt Said He Considered Him One Of The Three Finest Pianists In Europe. Bizet Had Long Suffered From Quinsy A Painful Inflammation Of The Tonsils Associated With Angina And Never Got To Enjoy Carmen's Success. Just A Few Months After The Opera's Debut He Died On His Sixth Wedding Anniversary 3rd June 1875 At The Early Age Of Thirty-Six The Official Cause Of Death Being Listed As A Failed Heart Due To "acute Articular Rheumatism". He Was Buried In The Père Lachaise Cemetery Paris.
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Au Fond Du Templo Saint duet for tenor from The Pearl Fish
This Is From The Pearl Fishers - Not The 'Pearl Fish'!
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