Bizet Georges (1838-1875), French composer.

Born on October 25, 1838 in Paris in the family of a singing teacher. Noticing musical talent son, his father sent him to study at the Paris Conservatory. Bizet graduated brilliantly in 1857 in the composition class of F. Halévy. Already on graduation year he wrote the operetta “Doctor Miracle”.

Upon graduating from the Conservatory, Bizet received the Rome Prize, which gave him the right to a long trip at public expense to Italy to improve his skills. In Italy he composed his first opera, Don Procopio (1859).

Returning to his homeland, Bizet made his debut on the Parisian stage with the opera The Pearl Fishers (1863). Soon the next opera was created - “The Beauty of Perth” (1866) based on the novel by W. Scott.

Despite all the musical merits, the opera did not bring success, and in 1867 Bizet again turned to the genre of operetta (“Malbrouck was about to go on a campaign”), and in 1871 he created new opera- “Djamila” based on the poem “Namuna” by A. Musset.

The composer brought real fame and glory symphonic music to the drama by A. Daudet “La Arlesienne” (1872); Subsequently, two orchestral suites were composed from it. After Le L'Arlesienne, Bizet again turned to opera - in 1875 the famous Carmen was written based on P. Merimee's novella.

Now it’s hard to believe that a work recognized as the pinnacle of French operatic realism has gone around all over the world. opera scenes world and which became one of the most beloved and popular in the history of music, was not successful when first staged in Paris and was soon removed from the repertoire. The failure of his beloved brainchild had such an effect on Bizet, who had suffered from a heart defect since childhood, that it led to tragic end- he died on June 3, 1875 in Paris.

After the composer’s death, the score of the opera “Ivan the Terrible” (1865), which was first staged only in 1946, was found in his papers.

There is a singing teacher in the family. He was registered under the name Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, but at baptism he received the name Georges, by which he was subsequently known. Bizet entered the Paris Conservatoire two weeks before he turned ten.

In 1857 he shared a prize with Charles Lecoq in a competition organized by Jacques Offenbach for the operetta " Wonderful doctor" and received the Rome Prize, which allowed him to live in Rome for three years, composing music and pursuing his education. The reporting work (the writing of which was mandatory for all laureates of the Rome Prize) was the opera “Don Procopio”. With the exception of a period spent in Rome, Bizet lived his entire life in Paris.

After a stay in Rome, he returned to Paris, where he devoted himself to writing music. In 1863 he wrote the opera The Pearl Fishers. During the same period, he wrote "The Beauty of Perth", music for Alphonse Daudet's play "The Arlesian" and a piece for piano "Child's Games". He also wrote the romantic opera Djamile, usually regarded as the predecessor of Carmen. Bizet himself forgot about it, and the symphony was not remembered until 1935, when it was discovered in the library of the conservatory. When first presented, this work received praise from the early romantic period. The symphony is remarkable for its stylistic similarity to the music of Franz Schubert, which was almost unknown in Paris at the time, except perhaps for a few songs. In 1874-1875, the composer worked on Carmen. The opera premiered in Paris theater"Opera-Comique" on March 3, 1875 and ended in failure. Bizet did not complete his Second Symphony, Rome.

Essays (full list)

Operas

• "Anastasi and Dmitry"
• "Don Procopio" (opera buffa, on Italian, 1858-1859, staged 1906, Monte Carlo), also exists orchestrated by Leonid Feigin
• “Love the Artist” (French L’Amour peintre, libretto by Bizet, after J.B. Molière, 1860, not finished, not published)
• "Guzla Emir" (comic opera, 1861-1862)
• “The Pearl Seekers” (French Les Pecheurs de perles, 1862-63, staged 1863, Théâtre Lyric, Paris)
• “Ivan the Terrible” (French: Ivan le Terrible, 1865, staged 1946, Mühringen Castle, Württemberg)
• "Nicholas Flamel" (1866?, fragments)
• “The Beauty of Perth” (French: La Jolie fille du Perth, 1866, staged 1867, “Théâtre Lyricique”, Paris)
• “The Cup of the King of Thule” (French: La Coupe du roi de Thule, 1868, fragments)
• "Clarissa Garlow" (comic opera, 1870-1871, fragments)
• "Calandal" (comic opera, 1870), Griselda (comic opera, 1870-71, unfinished)
• “Djamile” (comic opera, 1871, staged 1872, Opera Comique theater, Paris)
• "Don Rodrigo" (1873, unfinished)
• “Carmen” (dramatic opera, 1873-1874, staged 1875, Opera Comique theater, Paris; recitatives written by E. Guiraud, after Bizet’s death, for production in Vienna, 1875)

Operettas

• Anastasia and Dmitry
• Malbrough is going on a campaign (Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre, 1867, Athenaeum theater, Paris; Bizet owns the 1st act, the other 3 acts are by I. E. Legui, E. Jonas, L. Delibes)
• Sol-si-re-pif-pan (1872, Chateau d'eau Theater, Pa.
• Angel and Tobia (L’Ange et Tobia, circa 1855-1857)
• Héloïse de Montfort (1855-1857)
• The Enchanted Knight (Le Chevalier enchant?, 1855-57)
• Erminia (1855-1857)
• The Return of Virginia (Le Retour de Virginie, circa 1855-1857)
• David (1856)
• Clovis and Clotilde (1857)
• Doctor Miracle (1857)
• Song to the Age (Carmen seculaire, after Horace, 1860)
• The Marriage of Prometheus (Les Noces de Promethee, 1867)

Bizet Georges

Biography of Georges Bizet - early years.
Georges Bizet was born in Paris on October 25, 1838. His full name was Alexandre-César-Leopold Bizet, but his family called him Georges. Georges Bizet was brought up in an atmosphere of love for music: his father and maternal uncle were singing teachers, and his mother played the piano. She became his first music teacher. Bizet's talent manifested itself in a very early age: From the age of four he knew the notes.
At the age of ten, Bizet entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied for nine years. Bizet's teachers were the most famous musical figures in France: A. Marmontel, P. Zimmerman, composers F. Halévy and C. Gounod. Although Bizet himself later admitted that he was much more attracted to literature, he music lessons were very successful: already during his studies he wrote a lot musical compositions. Among them became best work a symphony he created at the age of seventeen, which is successfully performed to this day.
IN last year While studying, Bizet composed a cantata on an ancient legendary story, with which he took part in a competition to write a one-act operetta, and which received a prize. Bizet also received prizes at competitions in piano and organ playing, and his greatest award during his studies was the Grand Prix de Rome for the cantata “Clovis and Clotilde,” which gave him the opportunity to receive a state scholarship and a four-year residence in Italy.
After graduating from the conservatory, Bizet lived in Italy from 1857 to 1860. There he traveled a lot and studied his education, getting acquainted with local life. At that time, the young composer was at a crossroads: he had not yet found his theme in musical creativity. However, he decided on the form of presenting his future works - for this he chose theatrical music. He was interested in Parisian opera premieres and musical theater, partly for mercantile reasons, since it was easier to achieve success in this area in those days.
During his stay in Italy, Bizet wrote the symphony-cantata “Vasco da Gama” and several orchestral pieces, some of which were later included in the symphonic suite “Memories of Rome”. The three years spent in Italy were a rather carefree time in the biography of Georges Bizet.
Upon returning to Paris, difficult times began for Bizet. Achieving recognition was not so easy, and Bizet earned money by giving private lessons, writing music to order in a light genre, and working with other people's works. Shortly after Bizet's arrival in Paris, his mother died. Constant overexertion and sharp declines in creative strength that accompanied the composer throughout his life became the reason for the short life of the brilliant composer.
But Bizet did not look for easy ways to recognition. Although he could have become an excellent pianist and achieved success in this field more quickly, he completely devoted himself to composer activity. “I don’t want to do anything for external success, brilliance, I want to have an idea before starting anything...” - this is how Bizet himself wrote about his choice. The diversity of his creative ideas can be judged from the found unfinished works, which during his short life Bizet did not manage to complete, such as the opera “Ivan the Terrible”, found only in the 30s of our century.
In 1863, the premiere of Bizet’s opera “The Pearl Fishers” took place, which, although it lasted eighteen performances, had no great success. Another Bizet opera, La Belle de Perth, was written in 1867 and also did not receive public approval. Bizet himself was forced to agree with the opinions of critics and survive this crisis moment in his musical career. However, it was in “The Beauty of Perth” that the first features of Bizet’s realism appeared, who sought to change the style of comic opera, endowing it with deep life conflicts and feelings.
This was followed by the difficult year 1868 in the biography of Georges Bizet, when, in addition to serious health problems, he experienced a prolonged creative crisis. In 1869, Bizet married the daughter of his teacher, Genevieve Halévy, and in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, Bizet enlisted in the National Guard, which could not but have a heavy impact on the young family and the composer’s creative work.
Biography of Georges Bizet – mature years.
The 70s were a heyday creative biography Georges Bizet. In 1871, he began to study music again and composed the piano suite “Children's Games.”
Soon Bizet composed a one-act romantic opera "Djamile", and in 1872 the premiere of Alphonse Daudet's play "La Arlesienne" took place. The music written by Bizet for this play was included in the golden fund of world symphonic works and became a new milestone in Bizet’s creative biography. The premieres of these plays were unsuccessful, despite the high merits of Bizet's music. Bizet himself considered the opera “Djamile” the beginning of his new path. "Jamile" was a confirmation creative maturity Bizet. It is believed that it was this work that led the composer to his operatic masterpiece"Carmen"
Despite the fact that "Carmen" was written for production at the Comic Opera Theater, it can only be formally attributed to this genre, since "Carmen" is, in fact, musical drama, in which the composer managed to vividly depict folk scenes and characters.
The premiere of "Carmen" took place in 1875 and was unsuccessful, which was very difficult for the composer and greatly affected his health. "Carmen" was appreciated after Bizet's death and was recognized as the pinnacle of his work a year after its unsuccessful premiere. Pyotr Tchaikovsky called Carmen a masterpiece, reflecting “to the strongest extent the musical aspirations of an entire era” and was convinced of the timeless popularity of the opera.
The uniqueness of Georges Bizet's work was expressed not only in the high merits of his music, but also in his deep understanding of theatrical music.
Georges Bizet died on June 3, 1875 from a heart attack.

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Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet(French: Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, received the name at baptism Georges, fr. Georges; October 25, 1838, Paris - June 3, 1875, Bougival) - French composer of the Romantic period, author of orchestral works, romances, piano pieces, as well as operas, the most famous of which was Carmen.

He was born on October 25, 1838 in Paris in the family of singing teacher Adolphe Armand Bizet. He was registered under the name Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, but at baptism he received the name Georges, by which he was later known. Initially he studied music with his mother Anna Leopoldina Aimé (nee Delsarte). Bizet entered the Paris Conservatoire two weeks before he turned 10 years old. He studied counterpoint and fugue with P. Zimmerman, as well as with his replacement, C. Gounod (later a friend of Bizet).

Already while studying at the conservatory (1848-1857), Bizet tried himself as a composer. During this period, he brilliantly mastered composing technique and performing skills. Franz Liszt, who heard Bizet perform his piano music, exclaimed: “ My God! I believed that this could be done by one person - me. But it turns out there are two of us!».

In 1857 he shared the prize with Charles Lecoq in a competition organized by Jacques Offenbach for the operetta Doctor Miracle and received the Prix de Rome. That same year, Bizet submitted the cantata Clovis and Clotilde to the competition, for which he also received the Prix de Rome, which allowed him to live in Rome for three years, composing music and pursuing his education. The reporting work (the writing of which was mandatory for all laureates of the Rome Prize) was the opera “Don Procopio”. The opera was unknown to the public until 1895, when the composer C. Malherbe published a description of “Don Procopio,” which he found in the archives of the deceased director of the conservatory, Aubert. In 1906, in Malherbe's version (with recitatives written by him), Bizet's first opera was staged at the Teatro Monte Carlo.

With the exception of a period spent in Rome, Bizet lived his entire life in Paris. After a stay in Rome, he returned to Paris, where he devoted himself to writing music. In 1863 he wrote the opera The Pearl Fishers. During the same period, he wrote “The Beauty of Perth” (1867), a piece for piano “Children’s Games” (1870), music for Alphonse Daudet’s play “La Arlesienne” (1872). The premiere of "La Arlesienne" took place on October 11, 1872; Neither the play nor the music were successful with the public. The composer made a concert suite from the music for Arlesienne. In 1878, P. I. Tchaikovsky wrote to N. F. von Meck: “ Speaking of freshness in music, I recommend you the orchestral suite of the late Bizet “L" Arlesienne. It is a masterpiece of its own.”. The second suite based on music for the play (“Pastoral”, “Intermezzo”, “Minuet”, “Farandola”) was composed by Guiraud after Bizet’s death.

In 1867, the magazine Revue Nationale et Etrangère offered Bizet permanent cooperation as a music reviewer; Bizet's articles were published under the pseudonym Gaston de Betsy. He also wrote the romantic opera Djamile (1870), usually regarded as the predecessor of Carmen, and a symphony in C major. Bizet himself forgot about it, and the symphony was not remembered until 1935, when it was discovered in the library of the conservatory. The symphony is remarkable for its stylistic similarity to the music of Franz Schubert, which was almost unknown in Paris at that time, with the possible exception of a few songs. In 1874-1875, the composer worked on Carmen. In the summer of 1874, in Bougival, the composer finished the opera; the orchestration of the score took only two months. The opera premiered at the Opera-Comique theater in Paris on March 3, 1875 and ended in failure. After the premiere, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure. He died of a heart attack just three months later, not knowing that Carmen would turn out to be the pinnacle of his success and forever be among the most recognizable and popular classical works peace. P.I. Tchaikovsky, who was a big fan of this opera, wrote: “... But here comes a Frenchman (whom I can boldly call a genius), for whom all these piquancies and spices are not the result of invention, but flow in a free stream, flatter the ear and at the same time touch and excite. He seems to be saying: “...you don’t want anything majestic, grandiose and strong, you want something pretty, here’s something nice for you, joli. Bizet is an artist who pays tribute to the depravity of the tastes of his age, but is warmed by true, genuine feeling and inspiration».

Shortly after the production of Carmen, Bizet became seriously ill, and at the beginning of June 1875 there was a sudden deterioration, as a result of which he died on June 3 in Bougival. After a temporary burial in the Montmartre cemetery, Bizet's ashes were transferred to the Père Lachaise cemetery, where many are buried prominent figures art. After Bizet's death, his works, with the exception of Carmen, were generally not widely recognized, their manuscripts were distributed or lost, and the published versions of the works were often revised and changed by other authors. Only after many years of oblivion did his works begin to be performed more and more often, and only from the 20th century did the name of Georges Bizet stand worthily on a par with the names of others outstanding composers. In his 36 years of life, he did not have time to create his own music school and did not have any obvious disciples or followers. Bizet's premature death at the very beginning of his heyday mature creativity is assessed as a significant and irreparable loss for world classical music.

On June 3, 1869, Georges Bizet married Genevieve Halévy. cousin Louis Halévy - creator musical genre"operetta". In 1871, Georges and Genevieve had their only son Jacques, who later became a close friend of Marcel Proust.

Memory

• Municipal Conservatory (French) Conservatoire municipal du 20e Georges Bizet) in the XX arrondissement of Paris bears his name.
• A square in Anderlecht (Brussels metropolitan area) is named in his honor.

Creation

Operas

• “Don Procopio” (opera buffa, in Italian, 1858-1859, staged 1906, Monte Carlo), also exists orchestrated by Leonid Feigin
• “Love the Artist” (French L’Amour peintre, libretto by Bizet, after J.B. Molière, 1860, not finished, not published)
• "Guzla Emir" (comic opera, 1861-1862)
• “The Pearl Seekers” (French Les Pecheurs de perles, 1862-1863, staged 1863, “Théâtre Lyricique”, Paris
• Ivan IV (1862-1865), staged in 1951 at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
• "Nicholas Flamel" (1866, fragments)
• “The Beauty of Perth” (French: La Jolie fille du Perth, 1866, staged 1867, “Théâtre Lyricique”, Paris)
• “The Cup of the King of Thule” (French: La Coupe du roi de Thule, 1868, fragments)
• "Clarissa Garlow" (comic opera, 1870-1871, fragments)
• "Calandar" (comic opera, 1870), Griselda (comic opera, 1870-1871, unfinished)
• “Djamile” (comic opera, 1871, staged 1872, Opera Comique theater, Paris)
• "Don Rodrigo" (1873, unfinished)
• “Carmen” (dramatic opera, 1873-1874, staged 1875, Opera Comique theater, Paris; recitatives written by E. Guiraud, after the death of Bizet, for production in Vienna, 1875)

Operettas

• Anastasia and Dmitry
• Malbrough is going on a campaign (Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre, 1867, Athenaeum theater, Paris; Bizet owns the 1st act, the other 3 acts are by I. E. Legui, E. Jonas, L. Delibes)
• Sol-si-re-pif-pan (1872, Chateau d'eau Theater, Pas.)
• Angel and Tobia (L’Ange et Tobia, circa 1855-1857)
• Héloïse de Montfort (1855-1857)
• The Enchanted Knight (Le Chevalier enchanté, 1855-1857)
• Erminia (1855-1857)
• The Return of Virginia (Le Retour de Virginie, circa 1855-1857)
• David (1856)
• Clovis and Clotilde (1857)
• Doctor Miracle (1857)
• Song to the Age (Carmen seculaire, after Horace, 1860)
• The Marriage of Prometheus (Les Noces de Promethee, 1867)

Odes-symphonies

• Ulysses and Circe (after Homer, 1859)
• Vasco da Gama (1859-1860)

Oratorio

• Genevieve of Paris (1874-1875)

Works for choir and orchestra (or piano)

• Students' choir (Cheur d'etudiants, male choir, until 1855)
• Waltz (C major, 1855)
• Te Deum (for soloists, chorus and orchestra, 1858)
• Bay of Bahia (Le Golfe de Bahia, for soprano or tenor, chorus and piano, circa 1865; music used in the opera “Ivan the Terrible”, there is a reworking for piano)
• Ave Maria (for choir and orchestra, lyrics by C. Grandmougin, after 1867)
• Song of the Spinning Wheel (La Chanson du Rouet, for soloist, choir and piano, after 1867), etc.

For unaccompanied choir

• Saint John of Patmos (Saint-Jean de Pathmos, for male choir, words by V. Hugo, 1866)

Works for orchestra

• Symphonies (No. 1, C major, Youth, 1855, score published and performed 1935; No. 2, 1859, destroyed by Bizet)
• Rome (C-dur, 1871, originally - Memories of Rome, 1866-1868, performed 1869)
• Overtures, including Motherland (Patrie, 1873, performed 1874)
• Suites, including the Little Suite (Petite suite, from the piano duets of Children's Games, 1871, performed 1872), suites from Arlesienne (No. 1, 1872; No. 2, composed by E. Guiraud, 1885)

Works for solo piano

• Great Concert Waltz (E major, 1854)
• Fantastic hunt
• (Chasse fantastique, 1865)
• Rhine Songs (Chant du Rhin, cycle of 6 songs, 1865)
• Concert Chromatic Variations (1868)

Piano duets

• Children's Games (Jeux d'enfants, 12 pieces for 2 pianos, 1871)

Works for voice and piano

• Including song cycles Leaves from the album (Feuilles d’album, 6 songs, 1866)
• Pyrenees Songs (Chants dee Pyrenees, 6 folk songs, 1867)

Music for a dramatic performance

• Arlesienne (drama by A. Daudet, 1872, Vaudeville theater, Paris)

Georges Bizet Georges Bizet
Basic information
Birth name	Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet
Full name	Cesar Leopold Bizet
Date of birth	October 25(1838-10-25 ) […]
Place of birth	Paris, Kingdom of France
Date of death	June 3(1875-06-03 ) […] (36 years old)
Place of death	Bougival, Third French Republic
Buried	Père Lachaise
Country
Professions
Years of activity	1854-1875
Tools	piano
Genres	opera, symphony, operetta, works for choir
Awards
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Biography

With the exception of a period spent in Rome, Bizet lived his entire life in Paris. After a stay in Rome, he returned to Paris, where he devoted himself to writing music. In 1863 he wrote the opera The Pearl Fishers. Hector Berlioz, in an article dedicated to the premiere of the opera, emphasizes that Bizet is not only a composer, but also a pianist of rare talent. The music writer regretted that Bizet did not give concerts, and noted that he was amazing with his phenomenal ability to sight-read unknown works of any difficulty. His teacher, professor and piano teacher at the Paris Conservatory Antoine Marmontel, also wrote about Bizet’s talent as a virtuoso pianist in his memoirs: He possessed the exceptional art of nuanced sound strength, imparting a special melodiousness to it, either by careful or intense pressure of his fingers. A consummate virtuoso, he knew how to highlight a melody with varying degrees of relief, softening and enveloping it in the harmonies of transparent accompaniment, the veiled or emphasized rhythm of which was subordinated to the free phrasing of the melody. It was impossible to resist the captivating charm of his captivating, delicate and clear ink. During the same period, he wrote “The Beauty of Perth” (1867), a piece for piano “Children’s Games” (1870), music for Alphonse Daudet’s play “La Arlesienne” (1872). The premiere of "La Arlesienne" took place on October 11, 1872; Neither the play nor the music were successful with the public. The composer made a concert suite from the music for Arlesienne. In 1878, P. I. Tchaikovsky wrote to N. F. von Meck: “ Speaking of freshness in music, I recommend you the orchestral suite of the late Bizet "L" Arlesienne. It is a masterpiece of its kind ". The second suite based on music for the play (“Pastoral”, “Intermezzo”, “Minuet”, “Farandola”) was composed by Guiraud after Bizet’s death. In 1867, the magazine Revue Nationale et Etrangère"offered Bizet permanent cooperation as a music reviewer; Bizet's articles are published under the pseudonym Gaston de Betsy. He also wrote the romantic opera Djamile (1870), usually considered the predecessor of Carmen, and a symphony in C major. Bizet himself forgot about it, and the symphony was not remembered until 1935, when it was discovered in the library of the conservatory. The symphony is remarkable for its stylistic similarity to the music of Franz Schubert, which was almost unknown in Paris at the time, except perhaps for a few songs. In 1874-1875, the composer worked on Carmen. In the summer of 1874, in Bougival, the composer finished the opera; the orchestration of the score took only two months. The premiere of the opera took place at the Parisian Opera-Comique theater on March 3, 1875 and ended in failure. After the premiere, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure. He died of a heart attack just three months later, not knowing that Carmen would prove to be the pinnacle of his success and forever rank among the world's most recognizable and popular classics. P. I. Tchaikovsky, who was a big fan of this opera, wrote: “... But here comes a Frenchman (whom I can boldly call a genius), for whom all these piquancies and spices are not the result of invention, but flow in a free stream, flatter the ear and at the same time touch and excite. He seems to be saying: “...you don’t want anything majestic, grandiose and strong, you want something pretty, here’s something nice for you, joli. Bizet is an artist who pays tribute to the depravity of the tastes of his age, but is warmed by true, genuine feeling and inspiration" On October 25, 1891, the 500th performance of “Carmen” took place at the Comic Opera; December 24, 1904 was the thousandth. Gabriel Fauré wrote in the Le Figaro newspaper on the same day regarding the anniversary performance of the opera: ...that Merimee's novella, transferred to the stage of the Favard Hall, could amaze and stun the regulars of this theater in 1875, that it could seem little in keeping with the traditions of the K:omic opera, this is understandable. But it is inexplicable how Bizet’s music, full of light, color, sincere feeling and charm, did not captivate the public from its first appearance; How could this audience not be moved by its drama, its pathos and the enormous power of passion. On the centenary of Bizet's birth (October 25, 1938), the opera was performed at the Opéra-Comique 2,276 times. Shortly after the production of Carmen, Bizet became seriously ill, and at the beginning of June 1875 there was a sudden deterioration, as a result of which he died on June 3 in Bougival. After a temporary burial in the Montmartre cemetery, Bizet's ashes were transferred to the Père Lachaise cemetery, where many prominent artists are buried. After Bizet's death, his works, with the exception of Carmen, were generally not widely recognized, their manuscripts were distributed or lost, and the published versions of the works were often revised and changed by other authors. Only after many years of oblivion did his works begin to be performed more and more often, and only from the 20th century did the name of Georges Bizet stand on a par with the names of other outstanding composers. During his 36 years of life, he did not manage to create his own music school and did not have any obvious students or followers. Bizet's premature death at the very beginning of the flowering of his mature creativity is assessed as a significant and irreparable loss for world classical music. On June 3, 1869, Georges Bizet was married to Genevieve Alevi, cousin of Louis Halévy, the creator of the musical genre “operetta”. In 1871, Georges and Genevieve had their only son, Jacques, who was subsequently a close friend of Marcel Proust. Memory Creation Operas “Don Procopio” (opera buffa, in Italian, 1858-1859, staged 1906, Monte Carlo), also exists orchestrated by Leonid Feigin “Love the Artist” (French L’Amour peintre, libretto by Bizet, after J.B. Molière, 1860, not finished, not published) "Guzla Emir" (comic opera, 1861-1862) “The Pearl Seekers” (French: Les Pecheurs de perles, 1862-, staged at Lyric Theater, Paris Ivan IV (opera) (1862-1865), staged in 1951 at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux "Nicholas Flamel" (1866, fragments) “The Beauty of Perth” (French: La Jolie fille du Perth, 1866, staged 1867, “Théâtre Lyricique”, Paris) "The Cup of the King of Thule" (French: La Coupe du roi de Thule, 1868, fragments) "Clarissa Garlow" (comic opera, 1870-1871, fragments) "Calandar" (comic opera, 1870), Griselda (comic opera, 1870-1871, unfinished) “Djamile” (comic opera, 1871, staged 1872, Opera Comique theater, Paris) "Don Rodrigo" (1873, unfinished) “Carmen” (dramatic opera, 1873-1874, staged 1875, Opera Comique theater, Paris; recitatives written by E. Guiraud, after Bizet’s death, for production in Vienna, 1875) Operettas Odes-symphonies Ulysses and Circe (after Homer, 1859) Vasco da Gama (1859-1860) Oratorio Genevieve of Paris (1874-1875) Works for choir and orchestra (or piano) Students' choir (Cheur d'etudiants, male choir, until 1855) Waltz (C major, 1855) Te Deum (for soloists, chorus and orchestra, 1858) Bay of Bahia (Le Golfe de Bahia, for soprano or tenor, chorus and piano, circa 1865; music used in the opera “Ivan the Terrible”, also arranged for piano) Ave Maria (for choir and orchestra, lyrics by C. Grandmougin, after 1867) Song of the Spinning Wheel (La Chanson du Rouet, for soloist, choir and piano, after 1867), etc. For unaccompanied choir Saint John of Patmos (Saint-Jean de Pathmos, for male choir, lyrics by V. Hugo, 1866) Works for orchestra Symphonies (No. 1, C major, Youth, 1855, score published and performed 1935; No. 2, 1859, destroyed by Bizet) Rome (C-dur, 1871, originally - Memories of Rome, 1866-1868, performed 1869) Overtures, including Motherland (Patrie, 1873, performed 1874) Suites, including the Little Suite (Petite suite, from the piano duets of Children's Games, 1871, performed 1872), suites from Arlesienne (No. 1, 1872; No. 2, composed by E. Guiraud, 1885) Works for solo piano Great Concert Waltz (E major, 1854) Fantastic Hunt (Chasse fantastique, 1865) Rhine Songs (Chant du Rhin, cycle of 6 songs, 1865) Piano duets Children's Games (Jeux d'enfants, 12 pieces for 2 pianos, 1871) Works for voice and piano Including song cycles Leaves from the album (Feuilles d’album, 6 songs, 1866) Pyrenees Songs (Chants dee Pyrenees, 6 folk songs, 1867) Music for a dramatic performance Arlesienne (drama by A. Daudet, 1872, Vaudeville theater, Paris)