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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 1,801,893 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Georges Bizet is the 22nd most popular composer (up from 23rd in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from France (down from 56th 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 22 out of 1,216. Before him are Antonín Dvořák, Gioachino Rossini, Igor Stravinsky, Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn, and Claudio Monteverdi. After him are Claude Debussy, Hector Berlioz, Bedřich Smetana, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Salieri, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Georges Bizet ranks 2. Before him is John Wilkes Booth. After him are Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Franz Brentano, Tobias Asser, Luís I of Portugal, Jan Matejko, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Ernest Solvay, and Émile Loubet. Among people deceased in 1875, Georges Bizet ranks 2. Before him is Hans Christian Andersen. After him are Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Andrew Johnson, Tongzhi Emperor, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, Éliphas Lévi, John Edward Gray, and Charles Wheatstone.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Bizet ranks 59 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre de Fermat (1601), Michel Foucault (1926), William the Conqueror (1028), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Edgar Degas (1834). After him are Jacques-Louis David (1748), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Claude Debussy (1862), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Cardinal Richelieu (1585).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

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

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