- Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Bizet was
born on October 25, 1838
- Fact 3 - Place of Birth: Paris,
France
- Fact 4 - Full Name: Georges Bizet
aka Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet
- Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1838-1875
- Fact 6 - Name of mother and father:
His parents names were Adolphe Armand Bizet and Aimee
Leopoldine Josephine nee Delsarte
- Fact 7 - Family background:
Professional musicians
- Fact 8 - Childhood and education:
Georges Bizet was a child produgy and enrolled in the Paris
Conservatory at the age of 9. His teachers included Antoine
Marmontel, François Benoist and Jacques Halevy
- Fact 9 - In 1857 Georges Bizet won
the music composition scholarship, the Prix de Rome, and spent 3
years in Rome, Italy
- Fact 10 - When Georges Bizet
returned to France in 1863 he composed the opera, Les Pecheurs
de perles (The Pearl Fishers). The Bizet family maid bore his
out-of-wedlock son at this time
- Fact 11 - He then wrote
other pieces of music including La jolie fille de Perth (The
Pretty Girl of Perth), the piano work, Jeux d'enfants
(Children's Games) and L'Arlesienne and Djamileh
- Fact 12 - Bizet married Genevieve
Halevy on 3 June 1869, she was the daughter of his late teacher
Fromental Halevy
- Fact 13 - Georges Bizet wrote his
opera Carmen in 1875. It was his masterpiece
- Fact 14 - Carmen was based on the
novel by Prosper Mérimée which was first published in 1845
- Fact 15 - Date of Death: Georges
Bizet died on June 3, 1875 in Bougival near Paris, France - he
was only 36
- Fact 16 - His types of compositions and works included
operas, orchestral music, incidental music, music for piano and
songs
- Fact 17 - In 1954 the musical Carmen Jones, adapted from the
music of Bizet, was produced starring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry
Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, and Diahann Carroll
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