Georges Bizet’s Carmen is at least partial evidence for the old observation that the French have written some of the best Spanish-flavored music. A composer of stunning talent, Bizet tragically died at the early age of only thirty-seven, three months after the première of his signature work. In the opera, set in...
Suite No. 1 from Carmen
Georges Bizet was a genuine musical prodigy, whose talent was early and widely recognized, who studied with the best teachers and composers in France, who perhaps was the close equal of Liszt as a pianist, who won the Prix de Rome, and who composed perhaps the most popular opera of all time. And yet–his career was a...
Symphony in C major
Georges Bizet was a genuine musical prodigy, whose talent was early and widely recognized, who studied with the best teachers and composers in France, who perhaps was the close equal of Liszt as a pianist, who won the Prix de Rome, and who composed perhaps the most popular opera of all time. And yet. His career was a checkered one, full of missteps, works that were never finished, works that...