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Jacques Offenbach

1819 - 1880

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Jacques Offenbach (, also US: , French: [ʒak ɔfɛnbak], German: [ˈʔɔfn̩bax] ; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Offenbach has received more than 1,201,340 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Jacques Offenbach is the 30th most popular composer (up from 32nd in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Germany (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Composer.

Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer of the Romantic era. He is best known for his operettas of the 1850s, such as Orpheus in the Underworld, The Tales of Hoffmann, and La belle Hélène.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jacques Offenbach ranks 30 out of 1,216Before him are Hector Berlioz, Bedřich Smetana, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Salieri, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. After him are Johann Strauss II, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Richard Strauss, and Sergei Prokofiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Jacques Offenbach ranks 3Before him are Queen Victoria and Gustave Courbet. After him are Albert, Prince Consort, Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and George Eliot. Among people deceased in 1880, Jacques Offenbach ranks 2Before him is Gustave Flaubert. After him are Maria Alexandrovna, George Eliot, Paul Broca, Henryk Wieniawski, Emperor Norton, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, and Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacques Offenbach ranks 60 out of 6,142Before him are Joseph Goebbels (1897), Hildegard of Bingen (1098), William I, German Emperor (1797), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Klemens von Metternich (1773), and Heinrich Heine (1797). After him are Gerd Müller (1945), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Martin Bormann (1900), Konrad Adenauer (1876), and Erich Fromm (1900).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Jacques Offenbach ranks 8Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Richard Wagner (1813), George Frideric Handel (1685), Johannes Brahms (1833), Robert Schumann (1810), and Felix Mendelssohn (1809). After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Carl Orff (1895), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), and Johann Christian Bach (1735).