Jacques offenbach orpheus in the underworld

Jacques offenbach the tales of hoffmann
Jacques offenbach died
Jacques offenbach can can

•

Biography

Jacques Offenbach was a composer-entrepreneur in search of the perfect formula for the musical stage. When he found it, in La belle Hélène and La Périchole, it brought him fame and fortune. Had he lived to complete his last work, Les contes d’Hoffmann, he might have added a more serious masterpiece to his many earlier, infectiously tuneful comedies. Born Jacob Eberst, he was the second son of a bookbinder. At the beginning of the 19th century his father had taken the family to Cologne from Offenbach am Main, hence the new surname. Offenbach senior, cantor in a synagogue in Cologne, taught singing and composition. As a child, Jacob began learning the cello. Both he and his brother showed promise during their early lessons. When Jacob was 14 they were taken to France to enrol in the Paris Conservatoire. Jacob became Jacques and was from then on effectively French, despite frequent trips back across the Rhine. He was a student for only a year. For the next 17 years, often working with his brother, he was a jobbing musician. He played in the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique a

•

Jacques Offenbach

German-born French composer (1819–1880)

Jacques Offenbach (;^{[n 1]} 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. 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 Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. The Tales of Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory.

Born in Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a synagogue cantor, Offenbach showed early musical talent. At the age of 14, he was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatoire; he found academic study unfulfilling and left after a year, but remained in Paris. From 1835 to 1855 he earned his living as a cellist, achieving international fame, and as a conductor. His ambition, however, was to compose comic pieces for

•

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – NOVEMBER 19, 2019, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H00. Radio program in French

On the occasion of the release of the CD Jacques Offenbach and friends – From the Synagogue to the Opera, Hervé Roten invites Jacobo Kaufmann, stage director, writer and researcher, and author of several books and articles dedicated to Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) and his father Isaac Offenbach (1779-1850)

Isaac Offenbach was born in Offenbach-sur-le-Main, near Frankfurt, on October 26, 1779. Orphan when he was very young, he learned music with travelling cantors. In 1802, he settled down in Deutz, a town on the Rhine facing Cologne, and started to make a living by singing in Jewish religious services, but also as a violonist in ballrooms and taverns. In Deutz, where he was called « der Offenbacher », he got married with Marianne Rindskopf. And, following the Napoleon’s decree of 1808, he changed his last name Eberst into Offenbach.
Isaac Offenbach earned his living as a teacher of violin, flute, guitar and singing, and from 1820 as a cantor in the s