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Georges Bizet

1838 - 1875

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Georges Bizet (né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Bizet has received more than 1,965,555 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Georges Bizet is the 20th most popular composer (up from 22nd in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from France (up from 59th in 2019) and the most popular French Composer.

Georges Bizet is most famous for his opera Carmen.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Georges Bizet ranks 20 out of 1,451. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Edvard Grieg, Gioachino Rossini, and Felix Mendelssohn. After him are Claudio Monteverdi, Igor Stravinsky, Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, and Bedřich Smetana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Georges Bizet ranks 1. After him are John Wilkes Booth, Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Jan Matejko, Luís I of Portugal, Tobias Asser, Ernest Solvay, Franz Brentano, Émile Loubet, and Léon Gambetta. Among people deceased in 1875, Georges Bizet ranks 3. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, and Andrew Johnson. After him are Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles Lyell, Éliphas Lévi, Isaac Singer, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, and Moses Hess.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Bizet ranks 53 out of 6,770. Before him are Édouard Manet (1832), Marcel Proust (1871), Coco Chanel (1883), Auguste Rodin (1840), Madame de Pompadour (1721), and Henri Becquerel (1852). After him are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Romain Rolland (1866), Gustave Eiffel (1832), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Charles Perrault (1628), and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Georges Bizet ranks 1. After him are Claude Debussy (1862), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Maurice Ravel (1875), Hector Berlioz (1803), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Erik Satie (1866), Jules Massenet (1842), Charles Gounod (1818), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Josquin des Prez (1450).

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