Offenbach is briefly biography

Offenbach, Jacques Biography Jacques Offenbach - one of the most gifted composers of the 19th century, the ancestor, along with Erve, the opera genre, the classic of French operetta. His art is imbued with irony, skepticism. The numerous operetta of Offenbach, in which veiled, in the events taking place in ancient Greece, then in non -existent states, the life and customs of the second empire were ridiculed, and became a kind of satirical chronicle of their time.

Offenbach is “a brilliant musical feuilletonist, satirist-buff, improviser, magician, musical transformer and manipulator, impeccably knowing the requirements and tastes of his public, but at the same time able to maintain his own creative personality.” His music, clear, simple and affordable, avoiding refinement, at the same time always original, fresh, witty orchestrated.

It is characterized by lightness, grace and wit, inexhaustible melodic wealth. The main role in it belongs to the rhythm of established and fashionable genres - a march, waltz, galopa, cancan and others. Jacques Offenbach was born on June 20 in Cologne, in the family of Kantor of the local synagogue, from childhood showed interest in music, playing the violin and cello.

In the year, he moved to Paris, where he studied at the conservatory, worked as a cellist in the theater orchestra, and for a year he was a conductor of Comedy Frances. In the year, Offenbach opens his own small Buff-Parizen theater, where he puts one-act operettes. In the year, the premiere of the first big operetta of Offenbach “Orpheus in hell” took place. Further, one after another, “Genevieve Brabante”, “Daphnis and Chloe”, “Fortunio song”, “Jacqueline”, “Bluttunes”, “Beautiful Elena”, “The Blue Beard”, “Parisian Life”, “The Duchess of Generalstein”, “Island of Tulipatan”, “Perical”, “Black Corser”, “Black Corser”, “Travel” Moon ”,“ Madame Favar ”,“ The daughter of Tamburmazhora ”and many other operettas.

Offenbach is not only a composer, but also a conductor, director, co -author of Libretto, an entrepreneur of his own works. The highest point of his success is the World Exhibition of the Year in Paris, in the center of the celebrations whose performances were staged "Duchess of Geroilstein." The collapse of the second empire cut off the career of Offenbach. In the year, he was forced to declare himself bankrupt and close the theater.

The composer, in order to correct his affairs, goes to the USA as a conductor. His operettes in the second half of the years, beautiful in their musical and artistic qualities, are no longer using, however, the previous success of the public. Throughout his life, a cherished dream to write an opera, Offenbach worked on her in the year, but did not manage to finish her.

The lyric-comedy opera “Hoffmann's Tales” was completed by composer Ernest Giro after the death of Offenbach, which followed on October 4 from a heart disease. In the enormous creative heritage of the composer, more than a hundred musical and theater works-two- and three-shakt operetta, performances, varies, musical interludes and faras. Source: L. Mikheev, A.

Odelovich "In the World of Operetta." Guide, 2nd add.