Fromental Halévy
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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy, was a French opera composer, widely regarded in his lifetime as one of the central figures of 19th-century French music.
Fromental Halévy (c. 1860–62), by Étienne Carjat
The bust of Halévy on the façade of the Palais Garnier.
Lithograph of soprano Madeleine Nottes as Rachel in the opera "The Jewess", 1858, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
Jacques Offenbach
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Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. H
Fromental Halévy
…Halévy, who wrote an early biography of his brother and was the father of Ludovic Halévy, librettist of many French operas, including Bizet's Carmen and Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Léon was also the father, by his mistress Lucinde Paradol, of the politician Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol. Bureau des…
Offenbach by Nadar (c. 1870s)
Offenbach in 1846
Offenbach as a young cello virtuoso: drawing by Alexandre Laemlein from 1850
The composer-conductor caricatured, 1858