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
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
Charles Lecocq
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Alexandre Charles Lecocq was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed considerable succes
Jacques Offenbach
Scene from La Fille de Madame Angot, Paris, 1873
Le Cœur et la Main, one of Lecocq's successes in the 1880s
Giroflé-Girofla, 1874