Georges Bizet

Bizet, Georges - zhôrzh bēzāˈ, 1838–75, French operatic composer. The son of professional musicians, he entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of nine and won the Prix de Rome in 1857. He was a gifted pianist and composed instrumental music in his teens. Bizet is celebrated for his opera Carmen (1875), based on a story by Mérimée. One of the most Read More...

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Letters of Composers: An Anthology, 1603-1945 ("Georges Bizet" begins on p. 239)
by Gertrude Norman, Miriam Lubell Shrifte. 426 pgs.

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Jan Pieters Sweelinck: Amsterdam, 1567 -- Amsterdam, 1621

Claudio Monteverdi: Cremona, 1567 -- Venice, 1643

Heinrich SchÜtz: Köstritz, 1585 -- Dresden, 1672

Samuel Scheidt: Halle, 1587 -- Halle, 1654

Jean Philippe Rameau: Dijon, 1683 -- Paris, 1764

George Frideric Handel: Halle, 1685 -- London, 1759

Johann Sebastian Bach: Eisenach, 1685 -- Leipzig, 1750

Giuseppe Tartini: Pirano, 1692 -- Padua, 1770

Johann Adolf Hasse: Bergedorf, 1699 -- Venice, 1783

Giambattista Martini: Bologna, 1706 -- Bologna, 1784

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Weimar, 1714 -- Hamburg, 1788

Christoph Willibald Von Gluck: Weidenwang, 1714 -- Vienna, 1787

Franz Joseph Haydn: Rohrau, 1732 -- Vienna, 1809

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Leipzig, 1732 -- Bückeburg, 1795

Johann Christian Bach: Leipzig, 1735 -- London, 1782

AndrÉ Erneste GrÉtry: Liége, 1742 -- Montmorency, 1813

Karl Stamitz: Mannheim, 1746 -- Jena, 1801

Muzio Clementi: Rome, 1752 -- Evesham, 1832

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Salzburg, 1756 -- Vienna, 1791

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Bonn, 1770 -- Vienna, 1827

Gasparo Spontini: Majolati, 1774 -- Majolati, 1851

Louis Spohr: Brunswick, 1784 -- Kassel, 1859

Carl Maria Von Weber: Eutin, 1786 -- London, 1826

Carl Czerny: Vienna, 1791 -- Vienna, 1857

Giacomo Meyerbeer: Berlin, 1791 -- Paris, 1864

Gioacchino Rossini: Pesaro, 1792 -- Passy (paris), 1868

Franz Schubert: Vienna, 1797 - Vienna, 1828

Hector Berlioz: La Côte-Saint-André, 1803 -- Paris, 1869

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka: Selna (smolensk), 1804 -- Berlin, 1857

Felix Mendelssohn: Hamburg, 1809 -- Leipzig, 1847

FrÉdÉric Chopin: Zelazowa Wola, 1810 -- Paris, 1849

Robert Schumann: Zwickau, 1810 -- Endenich, 1856

Franz Liszt: Raiding, 1811--Bayreuth, 1886

Richard Wagner: Leipzig, 1813 -- Venice, 1883

Giuseppe Verdi: Le Roncole, 1813 -- Sant' Agata, 1901

Robert Franz: Halle, 1815 -- Halle, 1892

Charles Gounod: Paris, 1818 -- Paris, 1893

Édouard Lalo: Lille, 1823 -- Paris, 1892

BedŘich Smetana: Leitomischl, 1824 -- Prague, 1884

Anton Bruckner: Ansfelden, 1824 -- Vienna, 1896

Johannes Brahms: Hamburg, 1833 -- Vienna, 1897

Alexander Borodin: St. Petersburg, 1834 -- St. Petersburg, 1887

Modest Mussorgsky: Karevo (pskov), 1835 -- St. Petersburg, 1881

Camille Saint-SaËns: Paris, 1835 -- Algiers, 1921

Mili Balakirev: Nizhni-Novgorod, 1837 -- St. Petersburg, 1910

Georges Bizet: Paris, 1838 -- Bougival, 1875

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Votkinsk, 1840 -- St. Petersburg, 1893

Emmanuel Chabrier: Ambert, 1841 -- Paris, 1894

AntonÍn DvoŘÁk: Nelahozeves (mühlhausen), 1841 -- Prague, 1904

Edvard Grieg: Bergen, 1843 -- Bergen, 1907

Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky -- Korsakov: Tikhvin, 1844 -- St. Petersburg, 1908

Vincent D'Indy: Paris, 1851 -- Paris, 1931

Ernest Chausson: Paris, 1855 -- Limay, 1899

Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev: Vladimir Government, 1856 -- Moscow, 1915

Giacomo Puccini: Lucca, 1858 -- Brussels, 1924

Gustav Mahler: Kalischt (bohemia), 1860 -- Vienna, 1911

Charles Martin Loeffler: Mulhouse, Alsace, 1861 -- Medfield, Mass., 1935

Edward Macdowell: New York City, 1861 -- New York City, 1908

Frederick Delius: Bradford, 1862 -- Grez-Sur-Loing, 1934

Claude Debussy: Saint-Germain-En-Laye, 1862 -- Paris, 1918

Horatio Parker: Auburndale, Mass., 1863 -- Cedarhurst, N. Y., 1919

Richard Strauss: Munich, 1864 --

Jean Sibelius: Hämeenlinna, Finland, 1865 --

Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov: Government of Orlov, 1866 -- Yalta, 1901

Granville Bantock: London, 1868 --

Albert Roussel: Tourcoing, 1869 -- Royan, 1937

Alexander Scriabin: Moscow, 1872 -- Moscow, 1915

Max Reger: Brand (bavaria), 1873 -- Leipzig, 1916

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Oneg, Novgorod, 1873 -- Los Angeles, 1943

Arnold SchÖnberg: Vienna, 1874 --

Gustav Holst: Cheltanham, 1874 -- London, 1934

Charles Ives: Danbury, Conn., 1874 ---

Maurice Ravel: Ciboure, 1875 -- Paris, 1937

Ernest Bloch: Geneva, 1880 --

Alfredo Casella: Turin) 1883 --

Louis Gruenberg: Brest-Litovsk, 1883 --

Arnold Bax: London, 1883 --

Edgard VarÈse: Paris, 1885 --

Sergey Prokofiev: Sonzowka (ekaterinoslav), 1891 --

John Donald Robb: Minneapolis, Minn., 1892 --

Walter Piston: Rockland, Maine, 1894 --

Robert Russell Bennett: Kansas City, Mo., 1894 --

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Florence, 1895 --

Ernst LÉvy: Basel, 1895 --

Howard Hanson: Wahoo, Nebraska, 1896 --

Virgil Thomson: Kansas City, 1896 --

Henry Cowell: Menlo Park, California, 1897 --

Roy Harris: Lincoln County, Oklahoma, 1898 --

Randall Thompson: New York City, 1899 --

Carlos ChÁvez: Mexico D. F., 1899

George Antheil: Trenton, New Jersey, 1900

Ernst Krenek: Vienna, 1900 --

Aaron Copland: Brooklyn, N. Y., 1900 --

Dmitri Shostakovich: St. Petersburg, 1906 --

Paul Creston: New York City, 1906 --

William Schuman: New York City, 1910 --

David Diamond: Rochester, N. Y., 1915 --

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Makers of Opera (1948) (Chap. 15 "Bizet")
by Kathleen O'Donnell Hoover. 257 pgs.

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Introduction

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1: Peri

2: Monteverdi

3: Alessandro Scarlatti

4: Pergolesi

5: Lully

6: Rameau

7: Gluck

8: Mozart

9: Beethoven

10: Weber

11: Meyerbeer

12: Wagner

13: Rossini

14: Verdi

15: Bizet

16: Mussorgsky

17: Debussy

18: Richard Strauss

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List of Illustrations
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Romanticism (1830-1890) ("Bizet's Youthful Work" begins on p. 367 and "Bizet's Style" begins on p. 370)
by Gerald Abraham. 942 pgs.

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Romanticism--a concept more easily recognized than defined--dominated the artistic landscape of music from 1830-1890. Like the other volumes in the New Oxford History of Music series, this final volume to be published provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music and composers of its period. Divided among different forms of music, the chapters, written by eminent scholars under the editorship of one of the most respected experts on nineteenth-century music, detail the work of Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Berlioz, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Gounod, Bizet, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorak, Smetana, Faure, Wolf, Puccini, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Debussy.

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The Volumes of the New Oxford History of Music

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Publisher's Note

Illustrations

Introduction

I: New Tendencies in Orchestral Music: 1830-1850

II: Chamber Music: 1830-1850

III: Romantic Opera: 1830-1850

IV: Romantic Piano Music: 1830-1850

VI: Opera: 1850-1890

VII: The Symphonic Poem and Kindred Forms

VIII: Major Instrumental Forms: 1850-1890

IX: Solo Song

X: Choral Music

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Opera: Desire, Disease, Death ("Sex, Smoking, and Violence: Carmen" begins on p. 178)
by Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon. 294 pgs.

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Prologue "All Concord's Born of Contraries"

Melodies and Maladies: an Introduction

Famous Last Breaths: the Tubercular Heroine

Syphilis, Suffering, and the Social Order: Richard Wagner's Parsifal

The Pox Revisited: the "Pale Spirochete" In. Twentieth-Century Opera

Acoustic Contagion": Sexuality, Surveillance, and Epidemics

Where There's Smoke, There's . . .

Epilogue "Life-And-Death Passions": Aids and the Stage

Notes

Photo Credits

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The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers, Growth and Grandeur, 1815-1914 ("Bizet, Georges" begins on p. 143)
by Spire Pitou. 794 pgs.

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This monumental reference source is devoted to the development of French opera and ballet during the hundred years between the return of the Bourbons to the throne of France following the collapse of the Napoleonic empire and the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Focusing on works performed and personalities active at the Paris Opera during this period, the volume includes a detailed introduction that relates the 19th century history of the Opera to events that took place prior to 1815; the main encyclopedia section covering operas and ballets, singers and dancers, composers and choreographers, librettists and scenarists; also included are three helpful bibliographies.

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Roadside Meetings ("Bizet" begins on p. 15)
by Hamlin Garland. 478 pgs.

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An Explanation by the Author

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Chapter One: The Knock on My Door

Chapter Two: Dr. Hale and Edwin Booth

Chapter Three: Friends in Time of Need

Chapter Four: Boston Painters and Writers

Chapter Five: Lowell, Ingersoll, and Booth

Chapter Six: Meetings with Howells

Chapter Seven: Jamb A. and Katharine Herne

Chapter Eight: Other Plays and Players

Chapter Nine: Vernacular Poets and Novelists

Chapter Ten: A Return to the West

Chapter Eleven: Walt Whitman Old and Poor

Chapter Twelve: The Verse of Sidney Lanier

Chapter Thirteen: John Burroughs, Vineyardist

Chapter Fourteen: A Dinner with Kipling

Chapter Fifteen The Arena and Its Radicals

Chapter Sixteen: Stephen Crane

Chapter Seventeen: The Poet of the Sierras

Chapter Eighteen: In Riley's Country

Chapter Nineteen: Eugene Field

Chapter Twenty: Henry B. Fuller

Chapter Twenty-One: The Chap-Book and Its Writers

Chapter Twenty-Two: Inspirational Pilgrimages

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Story of Ulysses Grant

Chapter Twenty-Four: Edward Macdowell

Chapter Twenty-Five: Barrie and I Meet Roosevelt

Chapter Twenty-Six: Old Editors and New Magazines

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Vanishing Legion

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Washington as a Meeting Place

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Another Adventurous Interlude

Chapter Thirty: Joaquin Miller in Chicago

Chapter Thirty-One: Another Winter in New York

Chapter Thirty-Two: Kipling Returns to America

Chapter Thirty-Three: Literary Pilgrim Sons

Chapter Thirty-Four: Shaw and His Neighbors

Chapter Thirty-Five: American Expatriates

Chapter Thirty-Six: Henry James at Rye

Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Glass of Old French Wine

In Conclusion
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Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West (Discussion of Georges Bizet begins on p. 775)
by Alec Harman, Wilfrid Mellers, Anthony Milner. 1174 pgs.

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Part I: Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Music (up to C. 1525)

Preface

I: Music in the Early Church: Christian Chant

2: Music in the Early Church: The Beginnings of Part-Music

3: Music Outside the Church: Solo Song and Dance Music

4 The All-Embracing Style of The Thirteenth Century

5: The New Art

6: Music in the Early Renaissance

Part II: Late Renaissance and Baroque Music (c. 1525--C. 1750)

2: The Late Renaissance: Sacred Music-Instrumental Music

3: The Baroque: Music for the Stage--I

4: The Baroque: Music for the Stage-Ii

5: The Baroque: Music in Church, Hall and Home

6: The Baroque: Instrumental Music

Part III: The Sonata Principle (from C. 1750)

Preface

I: The Birth of Sonata

2: Haydn

3: Mozart: Music for Home and Church

4: Beethoven

5: Schubert

6: Bruckner, Brahms, and Mahler

I: The Birth of a New Kind of Opera

2: Wagner

3: Berlioz

4: Verdi And Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Part IV: Romanticism and the 20th Century (from 1800)

I: Chopin, Schumann, and Mendelssohn

2: Liszt and Romantic Virtuosity

3: The Russian Nationalists

4: The Nationalists of Central Europe

5: The Decline of Nationalism

I: Two Song-Writers

3: Delius, Sibelius, and Nature

4: Debussy and Ravel

5: Two Traditionalists: FaurÉ and Strauss

6: Welgar and Vaughan Williams

7: Schoenberg and Hindemith

8: Stravinsky and BartÓk

9: Europe Today

10: Music in a New-Found Land

Recommended Books

Recommended Music

Index of Music Examples

General Index

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