How many Georges Bizet releases are on Riffiter?

21 releases are catalogued, spanning 1976 to 1993.

What genre is Georges Bizet?

Georges Bizet is catalogued under Composer.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet is a composer artist from France. 21 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

Composer · France · Best composer albums

21
Releases: 1976–1993
Active years

Discography

21

Carmen (Chór i Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej, director: Jerzy Semkow) cover

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Georges Bizet (Born 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theatres preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. His keyboard and orchestral compositions were likewise largely ignored; as a result, his career stalled, and he earned his living mainly by arranging and transcribing the music of others. Restless for success, he began many theatrical projects during the 1860s, most of which were abandoned. Neither of the two operas that reached the stage—Les pêcheurs de perles and La jolie fille de Perth—was immediately successful. After the Franco-Pr…

Georges Bizet in brief

How many Georges Bizet releases are on Riffiter?: 21 releases are catalogued, spanning 1976 to 1993.
What genre is Georges Bizet?: Georges Bizet is catalogued under Composer.
What is the most recent Georges Bizet release on Riffiter?: Carmen (Chór i Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej, director: Jerzy Semkow), released in 1993.