Georges Bizet
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Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has becom
1875 in music
…January 24 - Camille Saint-Saëns' orchestral Danse Macabre receives its première. March 3 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuts, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. May – The score for the ballet Swan Lake is commissioned from Tchaikovsky (premiered in 1877…
Bizet photographed by Étienne Carjat (1875)
Part of the Paris Conservatoire, where Bizet studied from 1848 to 1857 (photographed in 2009)
Charles Gounod, a mentor and inspiration to Bizet in the latter's Conservatoire years
The Villa Medici, the official home of the French Académie in Rome since 1803