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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 of German birth and was Jewish, born Jacob Eberst, the son of Isaac Juda Eberst, a synagogue cantor, bookbinder, music teacher and composer.
		Offenbach is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques_Offenbach (330 words)

	Offenbach (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Offenbach is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany.
		Neighboring districts are Main-Kinzig, Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt-Dieburg, district free Darmstadt, Groß-Gerau, district-free Frankfurt and Offenbach.
		In 2002 the capital of the district was moved from Offenbach to Dietzenbach.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Offenbach_(district) (261 words)

	JACQUES OFFENBACH - LoveToKnow Article on JACQUES OFFENBACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 theatres in Paris.
		Beginning with Les Deux Aiieugles and Le Violoneuz, the series of Offenbach's operettas was rapidly continued, until in 1867 its triumph culminated in La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, perhaps the most popular opera bouffe that ever was written, not excepting even his Orphee aux enfers, produced in 1858.
		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.
	35.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OF/OFFENBACH_JACQUES.htm (524 words)

	Offenbach
		Offenbach made its first trip to France in 1973 and was based 1974-5 in Paris.
		In 1979 Offenbach toured Quebec with the Vic Vogel Big Band; a recording of their concert at the St Denis Theatre was issued as Offenbach en fusion, a Félix winner in 1980 as rock album of the year.
		Offenbach disbanded in 1985 after concerts at the Colisée in Quebec City and, on 1 November, once again at the Forum, where the recording Le Dernier Show and the film Marci were made.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002617 (619 words)

	OFFENBACH - LoveToKnow Article on OFFENBACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The earliest mention of Offenbach is in a document of 970.
	www.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)

	French Culture \| Music \| Von Otter Sings Offenbach CD Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is why Jacques Offenbach was one of the most entertaining composers of his time and gives evidence to explain his still enthusiastic reception nowadays.
		No one disputes that Offenbach is the unrivalled king of "entertainers", but he was also one of the great composers of the 19th century.
		Given the speed at which Offenbach habitually worked, that is entirely plausible, especially as he did not hesitate to insert an early composition, Le Rat des villes et le Rat des champs ("The Town Rat and the Country Rat"), into the new piece.
	info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/02offenbachottercontest.html (1768 words)

	OperaResource - jacques offenbach and hoffmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	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)

	European Operetta 1850-1880: Champagne Nights
		Offenbach's breakout hit was Ba-ta-clan (1855), which told of a distant kingdom that is ruled by a trio of hapless Parisians.
		Offenbach soon moved on to larger theaters, but still had to observe the daunting limit of three singing characters per show.
		The French operettas of Offenbach, Lecoq and their contemporaries were the most frequently performed musicals from the 1850s to the early 1880s.
	www.musicals101.com /operetta.htm (1378 words)

	Jacques Offenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Offenbach (June 20 1819 - October 4 1880) composer and cellist the creator of "La vie Parisienne" an originator of the operetta form a precursor of the modern musical comedy.
		Offenbach was of German birth and was Jewish born Jakob Eberst the son of synagogue cantor.
		Offenbach's final opera The Tales of Hoffman was more serious than his other reflecting perhaps the eternal wish of the to be taken seriously.
	www.freeglossary.com /Jacques_Offenbach (369 words)

	Offenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This live Concert of Music by Offenbach aims to put the record straight and show that at least some of his other works deserve the chance to be staged.
		Based on Offenbach's meatier second version (1874) of the Orpheus legend, it features nicely judged performances across the board and some stunning special effects, notably the explosive locomotive crash signalling the breach of the divide between Heaven and Hell.
		Those roots being 19th century Paris, where Offenbach's wicked satires on Parissiene life and politics were not always appreciated by those with authority and influence...
	dvd.mysic.co.uk /Offenbach (768 words)

	Jacques Offenbach- Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 (566 words)

	OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Offenbach reached a low point in his life when his father died in April, 1850.
		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)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: The Tales of Hoffmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jakob Offenbach was born in Cologne in 1819.
		Although Offenbach was already ill, he toured America in 1876 to perform his music as part of the Centennial celebrations and to help relieve his debts.
		Offenbach held a private reading of the opera at his house in May, 1879, where Leon Carvalho bought the rights to its premiere at the Opéra-Comique.
	www.operaworld.com /special/hoffmann.shtml (545 words)

	Notes on Offenbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		It was still unfinished at his death, and was completed by his best friend Ernest Guiraud, and premiered in 1881.
		He is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /jacques_offenbach.htm (385 words)

	•• Biography of Jacques Offenbach - PianoParadise ••
		Jacques Offenbach (June 20, 1819 -October 5, 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-Jewish origin, born Jakob Eberst, the son of a synagogue cantor.
		Offenbach's final opera, The Tales of Hoffman, was more serious than his other works, reflecting perhaps the eternal wish of the clown to be taken seriously.
	www.pianoparadise.com /offenbach.html (396 words)

	Jacques Offenbach Biography / Biography of Jacques Offenbach Biography 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/index.html (571 words)

	Offenbach,_Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Offenbach is a city in Hessen, Germany, located at the river Main.
		Offenbach was a center of the leather industry, which has however declined in the last decades.
		Historic buildings are the Offenbach castle, and the Steinheim castle in neighboring Hanau, both near the Main river.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Offenbach,_Hesse (120 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| Music \| Kracauer: Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his Times (MIT, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.frenchculture.org /books/release/music/kracaueroffenbach.html (241 words)

	Offenbach -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The satirical, romantic operetta emerged primarily in Paris in the mid-19th century with the French composer Jacques Offenbach; two of his works are still widely staged: Orphée aux enfers (1858; Orpheus in the Underworld) and La Belle Hélène (1864; Beautiful Helen).
		The character of Offenbach's operettas established several musical precedents, including the burlesque of...
		Hoffmann, E.T.A. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann', an opera in which the grotesque undersides of a poet's nature haunt his memories of love, was inspired by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056811?tocId=9056811 (685 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Offenbach
		Offenbach was originally called Les Gants Blancs by Boulet, Lamonthe Jr.
		Offenbach disbanded in 1985 which was followed by Kebec-Disc's release of their live album 'Le Dernier Show' recorded at the Montreal Forum.
		Boulet went solo and his material was more introspective than the hard driving rock of Offenbach.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/O/Offenbach.html (292 words)

	Offenbach, Jacques Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jacques Offenbach - Describes the events in his life and lists some of his works.
		Jacques Offenbach - Biography tracing his part in the founding of the operetta and light opera, and, by extension, musical theater.
		Offenbach, Jacques Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_O_Offenbach,_Jacques.html (1824 words)

	OFFENBACH/MEYERBEER ballets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Offenbach scores were recorded in New York's Riverside Plaza Hotel in June 1954, the Meyerbeer in April/May 1956; it's surprising that the latter wasn't recorded in stereo as it is just at that time that RCA began its historic series of Reiner/Chicago Symphony recordings.
		Offenbach's Bluebeard is eons removed from Bartok's treatment of the same subject.
		Those interested in music of Offenbach also may wish to investigate a recent reissue on Omega Classics called Offenbachiana originally released in 1967, with the Radio Lyrique Orchestra of the R.T.F. directed by Marcel Cariven featuring solo violinist André Aubigny (Omega OCD 1034).
	classicalcdreview.com /bluebeard.htm (273 words)

	campus-germany.de - City portrait Offenbach: In the shadow of Frankfurt
		Rumor has it that the most exciting thing about Offenbach is the view of the Frankfurt skyline.
		Until the 19th century Offenbach was little more than a pretty patch in Frankfurt’s front garden, a rural idyll dotted with the country homes and villas of Frakfurt’s first families.
		Offenbach today is a treasure trove for architecture enthusiasts, especially those interested in the Darmstadt Style, as the regional school of Art Nouveau is called.
	www.campus-germany.de /english/4.22.3.1589.html (500 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
		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.
		The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of a Great Books Core List developed by Mortimer Adler (1902-2001).
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=867 (383 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 (268 words)

	Hotels in Offenbach, Germany
		Hotel Plaza Offenbach is located in a central, though quiet area, only a 15-minute drive from old town Frankfurt.
		The “Pension am Ledermuseum” in Offenbach which was renovated in 2004, is situated next to the German Leather museum.
		Initially built as a family residence in 1892 by a wealthy factory owner, 20 years later it was enlarged and renovated to be used as a hotel.
	www.bookings.be /city/de/offenbach.html?aid=302078 (261 words)

	Offenbach, Jacques -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Jacob Offenbach Son of a cantor, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but had to leave for lack of funds.
		Offenbach is credited with writing in a fluent, elegant style and with a highly developed sense of both characterization and satire.
		June 5, 2003, Paris), championed modern composers, notably Jacques Offenbach, Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, and Maurice Ravel, who took Rosenthal on as his third and last composition student in 1926 and who remained a close friend.
	britannica.com /ebc/article-9373911?tocId=9373911&query=null&ct=null (820 words)

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