Carmen composer biography

Country France Georges Bizet fr. Georges Bizet; October 25, Paris - June 3, Buzhal, near Paris - a French composer. I need a theater: without it I am nothing. The French composer Georges Bizet devoted his short life to Bizet for a short life. The pinnacle of his work - Carmen - is still one of the most beloved operas for many, many people. Bizet grew up in a cultural educated family; Father was a singing teacher, mother played the piano.

From the age of 4, Georges began to make music under the leadership of his mother. At the age of 10, he entered the Paris Conservatory. His teachers became the most prominent musicians of France: the pianist A. Marmontel, theorist P. Zimmerman, opera composers F. Galevi and Sh. Already, the versatile talent of Bizet was revealed: he was a bright pianist F. Liszt himself, he repeatedly received prizes in theoretical disciplines, and was fond of playing at the organ, subsequently, already, already, already Gathering fame, he was engaged in S.

in the conservative years, works full of youthful freshness and ease, including the symphony to the Major, the comic opera “Dr. House”. The end of the conservatory was marked by receipt of the Roman Prize for the Klovis and Clotilda cantata, which gave the right to four -year stay in Italy and the state scholarship. Then, for the competition, declared by J.

Offenbach, Bizet writes Operetta “Doctor Miracl”, which was also awarded the prize. In Italy, Bizet, fascinated by the fertile southern nature, monuments of architecture and painting, works a lot and fruitfully, he studies art, reads many books, comprehends beauty in all its manifestations. The ideal for Bizet becomes a beautiful, harmonious world of Mozart and Raphael. Truly French grace, a generous melodic gift, a delicate taste forever became integral features of the composer style.

Bizet is increasingly attracted by opera music, capable of "merge" with a phenomenon or a hero depicted on the stage. Instead of the cantata, which the composer had to represent in Paris, he writes the comic opera Don Prokopio, designed in the traditions of J., is also created by the symphony of Vasco da Gama. The beginning of serious creative searches and at the same time heavy, routine work for a piece of bread is associated with the return to Paris.

Bizet has to make arrangements of other people's opera scores, write entertainment music for cafes concerts and at the same time create new works, working 16 hours a day. I just finished romances for the new publisher. I'm afraid that it turned out mediocre, but money is needed. Money, forever money - to hell! His “pearl seekers”, where the naturalness of the expression of feelings is combined with eastern exoticism, caused G.'s praise in the “Perth beauty”, the life of ordinary people is depicted for the plot of V.

Scott. The success of these operas was not so great that to strengthen the position of the author. Self -criticism, sober awareness of the flaws of the Peretnaya Beauty became the key to the future achievements of Bizet: “This is a spectacular play, but the characters have little outlined the school of beaten steers and lies died - died forever! We will bury it without regret, without excitement - and go!

In addition to the opera, he writes orchestral and chamber music: he completes the symphony of Rome, which was started in Italy, writes plays for piano in 4 hands “Children's Games” some of them in the orchestral version made up a “small suite”, romances. In the city, a few years later, his patriotic feelings found expression in the dramatic overture of the “Motherland” of Musse, which subtly adopted; Intonations of Arab folk music.

For visitors to the Opera-Comique comic opera, it was a surprise to see a work telling about selfless love, full of pure lyrics. The genuine connoisseurs of music and serious critics saw in Jamila the beginning of a new stage, the discovery of new paths. In the works of these years, the purity and grace of style are always inherent in Bizet by no means hindering the true, uncompromising expression of the drama of life, its conflicts and tragic contradictions.

Now V. Shakespeare, Michelangelo, L. in his article “Conversations of Music” are the idols of the composer, Bizet welcomes “Passionate, violent, sometimes unbridled temperament, similar to Verdi, which gives art a living, powerful work created from gold, mud, bile and blood. I change the skin as an artist and as a person, ”Bizet says about himself. One of the heights of Bizet’s work is the music for drama A.

Dode "Arlesian" The production of the play was unsuccessful, and the composer from the best numbers made up the orchestral suite after the death of Biza was his friend, composer E., as in previous works, Bizet gives the music a special, specific color of the scene. Here it is a Provence, and the composer uses folk Provencal melodies, saturates the whole work with the spirit of Old French lyrics.The orchestra sounds colorfully, easily and transparently, the Bizet reaches an amazing variety of effects: this is a bell ringing, the brilliance of colors in the picture of the folk festival “Farandola”, the sophisticated-camera sound of a flute with a harp in Menuet from the second suite and the sad “Singing” of the saxophone Bizet was the first to introduce this instrument to the symphony orchestra.

The last works of Bizet were the incomplete opera Don Rodrigo on the drama of Cornel's Drama Sid and Carmen, who put her author to a number of the greatest artists of the world. The premiere of Carmen became the largest life failure by Bizet: the opera with a scandal failed and caused a sharp assessment of the press. After 3 months on June 3, the composer died on the outskirts of Paris Buzhil.

Despite the fact that Carmen was staged at the Comic Opera Theater, it corresponds to this genre only by some formal signs. In essence, this is a musical drama that revealed the real contradictions of life. Bizet used the plot of the novels P. Merim, but elevated his images to the meaning of poetic symbols. And at the same time, they are all “living” people with vivid, unique characters.

The composer introduces folk scenes with their spontaneous manifestation of life force, beating over the edge of energy. The gypsy beauty Carmen, Toreador Escamillo, smugglers are perceived as part of this free element. Creating the “portrait” of the main character, Bizet uses the melodies and rhythms of the Habaners, Segidillas, Polo, etc. to a completely different world - a cozy, remote from storms, belong to Hose and his bride Michael.

Their duet is sustained in pastel colors, soft romantic intonations. But Hose is literally “infected” by the passion of Carmen, its strength and uncompromising. Bizet sings the beauty, the greatness of love, the dangling sense of freedom; Without biased moralizing, he truthfully reveals the light, the joy of life and its tragedy. This again manifests a deep spiritual relationship with the author of Don-Juan-the Great Mozart.

A year after the unsuccessful premiere, Carmen is triumphantly put on the largest scenes of Europe. For production at the Paris Theater, Grand Opera E. Giro replaced conversational dialogues with recitivates, introduced a series of dances from other works of Bizet to the last action. In this edition, the opera is known to today's listener. Tchaikovsky wrote that “Carmen is in the full sense of a masterpiece, Comrade Zenkin Source: Creative portraits of composers, G.

Father is a singing teacher, mother - pianist was the first teacher of music of her son. Marmontel Piano, F. Benois Organ, P. Zimmerman, as well as Sh. Guno counterpoint and fugue, J. Galevi Composition. Being a gifted pianist he was highly appreciated by F. Liszt, G. Berlioz, Bizet abandoned his career of concert virtuoso and completely surrendered to creativity. Already in the S-Dur symphony, the individual style of Bizet was written in 17 days-clarity and liveliness of expression, architectonic harmony, light, sunny flavor.

In the year of graduation, Bizet was simultaneously working on a one -act operetta “Doctor Miracle” a prize at a competition announced by J. Offenbach and Cantata for a plot from the Merovingian era “Clotis and Clotild” Roman Prize, 60 Bizet as a laureate of the conservatory was in Italy. Neglecting the requirements of the conservatory, instead of a reporting cantata on a spiritual theme, he wrote a comic opera Don Prokopio for a plot, close to Rossini, which was close to the “Seville Barber”, which caused the anger of professors of the conservatory.

In him he graduated from the symphonic ode with the choirs of “Vasco da Gama” by the epic poem “Louisiades” by L. in Bizet, creatively enriched, returned to Paris, hoping for quick success. But in the conditions of the second empire –70, the musical life of France was in decline. Paris was flooded with light, entertaining music, while in the opera Theater, lush performances dominated in the spirit of J.

to support his family, Bizet gave private lessons, wrote light music, shifted and corrected the works of other authors. During these years, he had the plans of many operas “The Cup of the Fulian King”, “Clarissa Harlow”, “Griseld” and others. In Paris, the opera was first delivered by the Bizet - “Pearl Sidnessers” “Lyric Theater”. This opera - a tribute to France then in France oriental plots, the action takes place on the island of Ceylon, among idealized characters.

Template dramatic situations did not endure the creative imagination of the composer.