Georges Bizet
1838–1875 · composer · France
Arts and ideas36 years old in 1874
Georges Bizet 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.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1838
- 184810 years old
- 185214 years old
- 185214 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
- 187032 years old
- 187436 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 187537 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comiquecomposer
- 187537 years oldDies
