Carmen opera songs

Known today for just a handful of well-loved pieces, Georges Bizet was a prolific composer with a huge enthusiasm for exploring new stories and themes in his stage works. Unfortunately, he also suffered a tortured inability to complete his scores, and many of his finished works were never performed during his lifetime.

Music was part of Bizet’s life from birth. His father and uncle were both singing teachers, and it was the latter who introduced his nephew to music and ideas outside the conventional French tastes of the time.

Georges bizet cause of death

Bizet went on to study at the Paris Conservatoire from 1848, and his entry at the age of only nine marked him out as a rare talent. Bizet was still a student, aged just 17, when he composed his Symphony in C (1855), one of the few purely orchestral pieces that the opera-loving composer penned.

It reveals an already fertile melodic imagination, yet despite its elegance and charm, the symphony had to wait 80 years for its premiere. Today, though, it’s