Bizet.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Composers Across Cultures Series .
- Composers Across Cultures Series .
Cover -- BIZET -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- CHAPTER ONE: 1838-1857: Le Docteur Miracle -- CHAPTER TWO: 1858-1860: Don Procopio -- CHAPTER THREE: 1860-1863: Les Pêcheurs de perles -- CHAPTER FOUR: 1864-1865: Ivan IV -- CHAPTER FIVE: 1866-1867: La Jolie Fille de Perth -- CHAPTER SIX: 1868-1870: La Coupe du Roi de Thulé -- CHAPTER SEVEN: 1870-1872: Djamileh -- CHAPTER EIGHT: 1872-1873: Don Rodrigue -- CHAPTER NINE: 1873-1875: Carmen -- CHAPTER TEN: 1875-2014: Life after Death -- APPENDIX A: Calendar -- APPENDIX B: List of Works -- APPENDIX C: Personalia -- Select Bibliography -- Works Index -- Index.
Today, Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. In the new Master Musicians edition of Bizet, author Hugh Macdonald takes an in-depth look at the composer's entire life and oeuvre. Featuring the latest in Bizet scholarship, including previously unknown pieces discovered by Macdonald while assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer's work, this biography reveals the true extent of Bizet's work as an arranger and transcriber as well as his considerable influence on his contemporaries.
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Bizet, Georges, -- 1838-1875. Composers -- France -- Biography.