PIANO: Grande Valse de Concert in Eb, Nocturne in F (1854) 3 Esquisses Musicales (1858) Chants du Rhin (1865) Variations Chromatiques de Concert (1868) Nocturne in D (1868) Jeux d'enfants (Children's Games), 12 pieces, pf. (1858) Vasco de Gama, ode-symphony (1859-60) La Mort s'avance, 4 vv., orch. (1857) Clovis et Clotilde, cantata (1857) Te Deum, sop., ten., 4 vv., orch. (1855) La Chanson du Rouet, solo v., 4 vv., pf. duet 1871) L'Arlésienne, suite No.1 (1872 suite No.2 is by Guiraud) Patrie, ov. 2, 3, 6, 11, and 12 from Jeux d'enfants, pf. in C (1855) Scherzo et Marche funèbre (1860-1) Roma, sym. INCIDENTAL MUSIC: L'Arlésienne (play by A. 1864-5) Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) (1863) La Jolie Fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth) (1866) Djamileh (1871) Carmen (1873-4). Carmen, there are musicological pitfalls for the unwary writer who has not consulted the work of authorities such as Winton Dean concerning spurious edns., additions, and interpolations. But in practically all of Bizet's work, incl. work has colour, melody, and brilliant aptness of orchestration. If Bizet's fame rests largely on Carmen, all his pubd. in C, 1855, of felicitous youthful charm, was disinterred in 1933 and f.p.
Paris 1875 and coolly received, though it has since become one of the most popular operas ever written.Ī brilliant pianist, Bizet also comp. In 1873 began work on an opéra-comique Carmen, prod. 1880 as suite Roma), the Petite Suite, Jeux d'enfants (1871), and incidental music to L'Arlésienne (1872). Had more success in his lifetime with non-operatic works such as Souvenirs de Rome (perf. later used in L'Arlésienne and Carmen (Flower Song), and Don Rodrigue (1873). Other operas which exist either in incomplete or fragmentary form are La Coupe du Roi de Thule (1868), Grisélidis (1870-1), which incl. a 5-act opera Ivan IV which he later abandoned, using some of the mus. They were Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) (1863), La Jolie Fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth) (1866), and Djamileh (1871). several operas, none of which had much success. Won Grand Prix de Rome 1857, in which year his Docteur Miracle was perf. Studied Paris Cons., pupil of Zimmerman and then of Halévy (whose daughter he married). Bizet,, known as Georges Bizet ( b Paris, 1838 d Bougival, 1875).
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