Georges Bizet, French Composer
Alexandre CÌ©sar LÌ©opold Bizet (October 25, 1838 - June 3, 1875) 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 become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognized as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalize on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theaters preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. His keyboard and orchestral compositions were largely ignored, his career stalled, and he earned his living mainly by arranging and transcribing the music of others. The production of Bizet's final opera, Carmen, was delayed because of fears that its themes of betrayal and murder would offend audiences. After its premiere in March 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure; he died of a heart attack three months later, unaware that it would prove a spectacular and enduring success. He was 36 years old. Commentators have acclaimed him as a composer of brilliance and originality whose premature death was a significant loss to French musical theater. No photographer credited, 1875.
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