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Jacques Offenbach

German-born French composer (1819–1880)

Jacques Offenbach (;^{[n 1]} 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. The Tales of Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory.

Born in Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a synagogue cantor, Offenbach showed early musical talent. At the age of 14, he was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatoire; he found academic study unfulfilling and left after a year, but remained in Paris. From 1835 to 1855 he earned his living as a cellist, achie

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Composer Jacques Offenbach had eight bars of a tune running through his head–a waltz that his mother had sung to him as a lullaby.

Offenbach’s father overheard him humming it and told him that it was bygd a once-promising young composer named Zimmer, who had suddenly dropped out of sight.

Sometime later, Offenbach’s publisher mentioned a poor old composer named Zimmer who had brought by a score that the publisher intended to reject because the composer was an unknown.

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Zimmer was due to return the next day to hear the publisher’s decision.

Offenbach became excited. “Do me a big favor,” he said. “Publish his del av helhet, pay him ten times what it’s worth, put it on my account, and send him to see me. I’ve got meet him.”

Zimmer never showed.

Some years later, in Vienna, Offenbach came across a crowd gathered outside a low-class dance hall where an emaciated old man lay unconscious on the pavement. The ma

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Jacques Offenbach

BIOGRAPHY

Offenbach was the son of a musician, author, and bookbinder who also served as cantor at a local synagogue. He was the seventh child in his family and took violin lessons from his father. The whole family was musical and in the evening often played chamber music together. Offenbach soon discovered that the cello was his favorite instrument and began to study with a local teacher. He began to compose music at age 6 and gave his first concert at age 12.

When he was 14, Offenbach was accepted at the Paris Conservatoire where he studied cello for a year and later became a cellist in the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique. One of his jobs was to do some music copying for a young composer by the name of Friedrich Flotow. The two became friends and wrote two books of cello pieces. Offenbach wrote the melodies and Friedrich wrote the piano part. They would often play their pieces in