Offenbach
Noun
Meaning
French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880)
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Another operetta by Offenbach which pokes fun at Greek mythology.
Grove rates it as "his most brilliant comic work, parodying Offenbach, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Rossini, his own Danse macabre and several popular tunes".
Other examples are Offenbach 's cello duets, quartet, and sextet, Pärt 's Fratres for 8 cellos and Boulez ' Messagesquisse for 7 cellos, or even Villa-Lobos' rarely played Fantasia Concertante (1958) for 32 cellos.
Halévy, who had written the text for Bizet's student opera Le docteur Miracle (1856), was a cousin of Bizet's wife, Geneviève ; Curtiss, p. 41 he and Meilhac had a solid reputation as the librettists of many of Jacques Offenbach 's operettas.
Musicals101.com Nevertheless, rather than copying the style of Offenbach, the operettas of Strauss II had distinctly Viennese flavor to them, which have cemented the Strauss II's place as one of the most renowned operetta composers of all time.
He probably would have excluded Jacques Offenbach 's Pierrot Clown, a theater score of 1855.