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Jacques Offenbach

1819 - 1880

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Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Offenbach is the 29th most popular composer, the 60th most popular biography from Germany (up from 64th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Composer.

Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer of the Romantic era. He is best known for his operettas of the 1850s, such as Orpheus in the Underworld, The Tales of Hoffmann, and La belle Hélène.

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Among composers, Jacques Offenbach ranks 29 out of 1,451. Before him are Claudio Monteverdi, Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, and Bedřich Smetana. After him are Dmitri Shostakovich, Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, and Jean Sibelius.

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Among people born in 1819, Jacques Offenbach ranks 3. Before him are Queen Victoria, and Albert, Prince Consort. After him are Gustave Courbet, Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Maria II of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1880, Jacques Offenbach ranks 2. Before him is Gustave Flaubert. After him are William Lassell, Maria Alexandrovna, Henryk Wieniawski, George Eliot, Paul Broca, Emperor Norton, Michel Chasles, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, and James Craig Watson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacques Offenbach ranks 60 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerd Müller (1945), William I, German Emperor (1797), Adolf Eichmann (1906), Georg Ohm (1789), Hildegard of Bingen (1098), and Erwin Rommel (1891). After him are Heinrich Hertz (1857), Hannah Arendt (1906), Eva Braun (1912), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Heinrich Heine (1797), and Erich Maria Remarque (1898).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Jacques Offenbach ranks 8. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), George Frideric Handel (1685), Richard Wagner (1813), Johannes Brahms (1833), Robert Schumann (1810), and Felix Mendelssohn (1809). After him are Richard Strauss (1864), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Carl Orff (1895), and Johann Christian Bach (1735).

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