![]() ![]() ![]() In 1857 a setting of the one-act operetta Le docteur Miracle won him a share in a prize offered by Jacques Offenbach. A second symphony, "Roma" was not completed. A delightful work (and a prodigious one, from a seventeen-year-old boy), the symphony is noteworthy for bearing an amazing stylistic resemblance to the music of Franz Schubert, whose work was virtually unknown in Paris at that time (with the possible exception of a few of his songs). Upon its first performance, it was immediately hailed as a junior masterwork and a welcome addition to the early Romantic period repertoire. It seems that Bizet completely forgot about it himself, and it was not discovered again until 1935, in the archives of the Conservatory library. His first symphony, the Symphony in C Major, was written there when he was seventeen, evidently as a student assignment. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptized Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. Bizet was born in Paris, France at 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne. Georges Bizet (Octo? June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. ![]()
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