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Georges Bizet

1838 - 1875

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Georges Bizet (né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; 25 October 1838 – 3 June 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 recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Bizet is the 26th most popular composer (down from 20th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from France (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Composer.

Georges Bizet is most famous for his opera Carmen.

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Among composers, Georges Bizet ranks 26 out of 1,451. Before him are Felix Mendelssohn, Edvard Grieg, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Claudio Monteverdi, Maurice Ravel, and Hector Berlioz. After him are Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Jacques Offenbach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ennio Morricone, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Georges Bizet ranks 2. Before him is John Wilkes Booth. After him are Liliʻuokalani, Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Tobias Asser, Jan Matejko, Edward W. Morley, Franz Brentano, Luís I of Portugal, and Émile Loubet. Among people deceased in 1875, Georges Bizet ranks 2. Before him is Hans Christian Andersen. After him are Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Éliphas Lévi, Andrew Johnson, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Bizet ranks 70 out of 6,770. Before him are Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Maurice Ravel (1875), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Hector Berlioz (1803), and Auguste Rodin (1840). After him are Claude Debussy (1862), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Francis I of France (1494), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Charles X of France (1757), and Michel Foucault (1926).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Georges Bizet ranks 4. Before him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Maurice Ravel (1875), and Hector Berlioz (1803). After him are Claude Debussy (1862), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Charles Gounod (1818), Erik Satie (1866), Gabriel Fauré (1845), François Couperin (1668), and Jules Massenet (1842).

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