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	Jacques Offenbach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880), composer and cellist, was one of the originators of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy.
		Offenbach was born in Cologne, Germany and was the son of Isaac Juda Eberst, a cantor, bookbinder, music teacher and composer.
		Offenbach is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Offenbach (507 words)

	OFFENBACH - LoveToKnow Article on OFFENBACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From this time forward the success of Offenbach's pieces became an absolute certainty, and the new form of opera, bouffe, which he had gradually endowed with as much consistency as it was capable of assuming, was accepted as the only one worth cultivating.
		OFFENBACH, a town of Germany, in the grand-duchy of Hesse, on the left bank of the Main, 5 m.
		Offenbach is the principal industrial town of the duchy, and its manufactures are of the most varied description.
	36.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OF/OFFENBACH.htm (726 words)

	Offenbach, La Vie Parisienne
		Offenbach was exceptionally prolific; he completed 101 stage works, of which over forty were full length operettas.
		Offenbach was one of twenty applicants for this little property which had the great virtue of proximity to the Palace of Industry where Louis Napoleon had just opened the International Exposition of 1855.
		Offenbach called in all his favors to triumph in the scramble for the theatre and on July 5, 1855, his company, the Bouffes Parisiens, was opened to the public.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/94_95season/1st_concert/offenbach.cfm (1671 words)

	OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although Jacques was considered to be a masterful cellist, he was also known for the unusual sounds and imitations he would make with his instrument.
		Jacques Offenbach was an acclaimed cellist in his native Germany, but he emigrated to Paris to pursue his dream of composing for the theater.
		Offenbach tended to incorporate all kinds of popular and traditional songs into his operettas in order to appeal to everyone.
	www.operaphilly.com /03-04/offenbach-bio.shtml (1209 words)

	OperaResource - jacques offenbach and hoffmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Offenbach had a large number of successful operettas and a small number of unsuccessful operas to his record, but by the 1870s his star had waned, and he was looking for a subject that would re-establish him as a serious composer.
		Offenbach died in October of 1880, apparently leaving nothing but the numbers for the Olympia (II) and Antonia (III) Acts, the framework in the form of the prologue (I) and epilogue, and fragments of the Giulietta, or Venice, Act (IV).
		Offenbach's authentic music for the Muse has been restored to Nicklausse/Muse, too, and more prominence is placed on the part of Stella, the woman who is manifest in Hoffmann's imagination as the three women in his 'tales'.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/resource/hoffmann.htm (688 words)

	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography Jacques Offenbach
		Although of German-Jewish origins, Offenbach has come to be thought of as essentially a French composer because of his great regard for Paris and its ways, to which he became addicted.
		Offenbach brought the same deft touch and gift for melody to his more serious opera, 'The Tales of Hoffman', regarded by many as his greatest work, and is I think my favourite piece of music.
		Offenbach died in Paris on the 5th October 1880, but in 1881 the posthumous premiere of 'The Tales of Hoffman' was performed.
	www.lessontutor.com /bf_offenbach.html (1133 words)

	Glimmerglass Opera - Opera Insights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Offenbach must have suffered a great deal at that time [1849] from his lack of success as a composer but he did not show this to the people around him.
		Often Offenbach made himself the butt of the comedy, as on the occasion when he announced that the evening would be given over to "Exercises of Strength and Ability in the Offenbach Struggle with the Difficulties of French Pronunciation." He had to support a lot of teasing that night.
		Offenbach, who had never dabbled in politics, found to his utter amazement that he too was a target of abuse in certain quarters.
	www.glimmerglass.org /insights/bluebeard/bio_detail.htm (1413 words)

	Jacques Offenbach biography - 8notes.com
		Jacques Offenbach (June 20, 1819 — October 4, 1880), composer and cellist, the creator of 'La vie Parisienne' and an originator of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy.
		Offenbach was of German birth and was Jewish, born Jacob Eberst, the son of Isaac Juda Eberst, a synagogue cantor, bookbinder, music teacher and composer.
		Jacques moved to Paris in 1833 to study the cello.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/offenbach.asp (397 words)

	Jacques Offenbach Biography / Biography of Jacques Offenbach Biography
		The German-French composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) can be considered the father of the operetta because his lighthearted works conquered the world and found imitators everywhere.
		Although he created a typically French musical idiom, Jacques, originally Jacob, Offenbach was born in Cologne, the son of a Jewish cantor and itinerant musician from the town of Offenbach.
		Offenbach was music director of the Comédie Française for 7 years, but when the International Exposition was held in Paris in 1855, he leased a theater seating only 50 people and presented his own satirical and topical sketches.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jacques-offenbach (570 words)

	Offenbach
		And whilst he was almost certainly inspired by the tuneful operas of Donizetti and Nicolai which he heard while in the orchestra pit, Offenbach was the main founder of 'operetta' (light opera with dialogue).
		Offenbach brought the same deft touch and gift for melody to his more serious opera, 'The Tales of Hoffman', regarded by many as his greatest work.
		aques Offenbach died in Paris on the 5th October 1880, but in 1881 the posthumous premiere of 'The Tales of Hoffman' was performed.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /offenbach.html (967 words)

	Jacques Offenbach: Biography
		Jacques Offenbach had a family consisting of nine other brothers and sisters.
		Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne Germany on June 20, 1819.
		When he was nine, Offenbach switched from the violin to the cello after his parents decided that the violin was too strenuous for a boy of delicate health.
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	Notes on Offenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Offenbach, though German by birth, is most strongly identified with French comic opera.
		While that visit was ill-fated in the sense that audiences who expected him to be a lively and witty personality akin to his music were disappointed to discover that he was really a mild and likable fellow.
		It was while performing with Offenbach that Sousa had the opportunity to hear Gilmore's band and consequently to pursue the incredibly successful career with which we all are familiar and which led to this concert by the Community Band of Brevard.
	www.brevard.cc.fl.us /~cbob/notes-offenbach.html (373 words)

	Jacques Offenbach- Composer
		Offenbach was the son of a musician, author, and bookbinder that also served as cantor at a local synagogue.
		Offenbach soon discovered that the cello was his favorite instrument and began to study with a local teacher.
		Offenbach is known as the father of the operetta and his influence has spread everywhere.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=618 (563 words)

	Jacques Offenbach
		Encouraged by these early successes, Offenbach boldly undertook the delicate task of entirely remodelling both the form and the style of the light musical pieces which had so long been welcomed with acclamation by the frequenters of the smaller theaters in Paris.
		From this time forward the success of Offenbach's pieces became an absolute certainty, and the new form of opéra bouffe, which he had gradually endowed with as much consistency as it was capable of assuming, was accepted as the only one worth cultivating.
		Offenbach died at Paris on the 5th of October 1880.
	www.nndb.com /people/368/000093089 (515 words)

	Jacques Offenbach
		Jacques Offenbach's real name was Jakob Wiener, son of a Jewish cantor.
		Offenbach moved to Paris in 1833 to study the cello, with his brother Julius, who was a violinist.
		He found employment initially as a cellist at the Opéra-Comique followed by a successful early career as a virtuoso on the instrument, for which he wrote a number of works, including a Concerto militaire and a Concertino.
	users.libero.it /claudioronco/offenbach.html (290 words)

	The Musical Times: Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jacques Offenbach had his day, and when the sun set he went to sleep – a process quite in the order of nature.
		Offenbach was born at Cologne in 1819, of a Jewish family which gave a well-known chanter to the synagogue there.
		As a musician Offenbach filled but a lowly place, but he was too much a man of his time not to call for the notice here given.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/obits/188011offenbach.html (578 words)

	Offenbach - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Offenbach (full name Offenbach am Main), city in west central Germany, on the Main River in Hesse, near Frankfurt.
		Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880), French composer, whose operettas satirized the politics and foibles of Napoleon III's Second Empire.
		This obituary for Jacques Offenbach appeared in The Times on October 6, 1880.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Offenbach.html (92 words)

	Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time:Siegfried Kracauer; Translated by Gwenda David and Eric ...
		Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of social and cultural history.
		Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and escapism that pervaded Paris in the aftermath of 1848.
		At the same time, Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and corruption of the times.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=1890951307&referrer=yah04 (276 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| 'Lost opera' found in clear-out
		A handwritten copy of the original score for Jacques Offenbach's last opera has been discovered a century after it was thought lost in a fire.
		The manuscript for the Tales of Hoffman - which premiered in 1881, a year after Offenbach's death - was found when the Paris opera library was re-organised.
		Music by Offenbach attracted interest from new audiences after it was used in Benigni's Oscar-winning film Life is Beautiful.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3896729.stm (256 words)

	•• Biography of Jacques Offenbach - PianoParadise ••
		Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach.
		Les Larmes de Jacqueline; Harmonie du soir By Jacques Offenbach.
		Jacques Offenbach / Barbe-Bleue (French) By Jacques Offenbach.
	www.pianoparadise.com /offenbach.html (396 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Tales of Genius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Composer Jacques Offenbach died in Paris on October 5, 1880, during rehearsals for this piece.
		Initially known as "Der Offenbacher" and later as "Offenbach" after a Napoleonic edict ordered Jews to alter their family names, this bookbinder, music teacher, and composer became the cantor of Cologne's Jewish Synagogue, which was destroyed in the carnage of the Second World War.
		Jacob (later Jacques) Offenbach was born June 20, 1819, the seventh of ten children.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/3420.html (1472 words)

	Jacques Offenbach Pictures
		Offenbach was a French composer, conductor and cellist, with a long career devoted mostly to writing popular music, especially operettas and opéras comiques.
		Offenbach operettas include: Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underword); La belle Hélène (Fair Helen); and La vie parisienne.
		Note: This picture gallery page includes drawings, paintings, photos and images of Jacques Offenbach, his music, activities, friends and family, and the various places where the composer lived and wrote.
	www.music-with-ease.com /offenbach-pictures.html (116 words)

	Anecdote - Jacques [born Jacob Eberst] Offenbach - Offenbach Insult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On December 8, 1881, 384 people perished at the Ring Theatre in Vienna after a fire erupted during a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.
		["Offenbach possesses the warmth that Daniel Auber lacks," Wagner declared on another occasion, "but it is the warmth of the dungheap.
		Offenbach, Jacques [born Jacob Eberst] (1819-1880) German-born French composer [noted for such operatic works as La Belle Helene (1864) and Tales of Hoffman (1881)]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=8002 (240 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
		Jacques Offenbach (June 20, 1819 -October 4, 1880),; composer and cellist,; the creator of "La vie Parisienne" and an originator of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy.
		Offenbach's final opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann),; completed after the composer's death by Bizet's friend Ernest Guiraud,; is based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann,; including the tale of Dr. Coppelius and his life-like creation, the doll Coppelia.
		Although completely identified with France, Offenbach was of German-Jewish origin.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=867 (484 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jacques Levy Offenbach (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jacques Levy Offenbach, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Offenbach's one serious opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann, 1881), after E. Hoffmann, was his masterpiece.
		Unfinished at his death, the opera was produced posthumously, and in 1951 it was made into a motion picture combining opera and ballet.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/OffenbacJL.html (276 words)

	Jacques Offenbach News
		News about Jacques Offenbach continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		It was Jacques Offenbach who persuaded waltz king Johann Strauss Jr.
		A handwritten original score of Jacques Offenbach's last opera, "The Tales of Hoffmann," has been discovered in the archives of the Paris National Opera, the music organization said Thursday.
	www.topix.net /who/jacques-offenbach (407 words)

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