Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 ? June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for his opera Carmen. Bizet was born in Paris, France at 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptized Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday.
His first symphony, the Symphony in C Major, was written there when he was seventeen, evidently as a student assignment. It seems that Bizet completely forgot about it himself, and it was not discovered again until 1935, in the archives of the Conservatory library. Upon its first performance, it was immediately hailed as a junior masterwork and a welcome addition to the early Romantic period repertoire. A delightful work (and a prodigious one, from a seventeen-year-old boy), the symphony is noteworthy for bearing an amazing stylistic resemblance to the music of Franz Schubert, whose work was virtually unknown in Paris at that time (with the possible exception of a few of his songs). A second symphony, "Roma" was not completed.
In 1857 a setting of the one-act operetta Le docteur Miracle won him a share in a prize offered by Jacques Offenbach. He also won the Music Composition scholarship of the Prix de Rome, the conditions of which required him to study in Rome for three years. There, his talent developed as he wrote such works as the opera Don Procopio. Apart from this period in Rome, Bizet lived in the Paris area all his life. (Collapse)...(Read more)
The opera "Carmen" was written by the French composer Georges Bizet. The opera is in four acts and the libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludov...
The opera "Carmen" was written by the French composer Georges Bizet. The opera is in four acts and the libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who based their work on a novella of the same title by the author Prosper Mérimée. Carmen was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on 3 March 1875. It was not very successful and its initial run only consisted of 36 performances. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, and thus never saw the opera's eventual popularity.
The tune "Avec la garde montante" occurs in the first act :
A group of soldiers relaxes in the square while waiting for the changing of the guard. A village maiden called Micaëla approaches the guards and asks to speak to the Corporal of Dragoons, José. A soldier tells her that "José is not yet on duty"
and invites her to wait with them, to which she declines saying she will return later. José then arrives with the new guard, which is greeted and imitated by a group of urchins singing "Avec la garde montante" which in English means "With the new guard".
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