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OFFENBACH, JACQUES (1819-1880) , French composer of opera bouffe, was born at Cologne, of German Jewish parents, on the 21st of June 1819. His talent for music was developed at a very early age; and in 1833 he was sent to Paris to study the violoncello at the conservatoire, where, under the care of Professor Vaslin, he became a fairly good performer. In 1834 he became a member of the orchestra of the Opera Comique; and he turned his opportunities to good account, so that eventually he was made conductor at the Theatre Francais. There, in 1848, he made his first success as a composer in the Chanson de Fortunio in Alfred de Musset's play Le Chandelier. From this time forward his life became a ceaseless struggle for the attainment of popularity. His power of production was apparently inexhaustible. His first complete work
taste of the period. Encouraged by these early successes, Offenbach
long been welcomed with acclamation by the frequenters of the smaller theatres in Paris. With this purpose in view he obtained a lease of the Theatre Comte in the Passage Choiseul, reopened it in 1855 under the title of the Bouffes Parisiens, and night after night attracted crowded audiences by a succession of brilliant, humorous trifles. Ludovic Halevy, the librettist, was associated with him from the first, but still more after 1860, when Halevy obtained Henri Meilhac's collaboration (see HALgvv). Beginning with Les Deux Aveugles and Le Violoneux, the series of Offenbach
triumph
Gerolstein
Lecocq
theatres. In twenty-five years Offenbach produced no less than sixty-nine complete dramatic works, some of which were in three or even in four acts. Among the latest of these were Le Docteur Ox, founded on a story by Jules Verne, and La Belle au lait, both produced in 1877, and Madame Favart (1879). Offenbach died at Paris on the 5th of October 1880. End of Article: OFFENBACH, JACQUES (1819-1880) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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