Who was Jacques Offenbach?
I have to pass up an assignment on Jacques Offenbach tommorow. I need to highlight other famous artists of similar style or genre with 5 relevant facts or information, 12 relevant facts in point form about his music genre or style, i.e. examples of famous pieces, evolution of this music genre , etc. thanks. 10 points to the first person who answers this question correctly.
In the year 1800, his father, Isaac Juda Eberst, left the town of Offenbach-am-Main and settled in the cosmopolitan city of Cologne, Germany. Initially known as “Der Offenbacher” and later as “Offenbach” after a Napoleonic edict ordered Jews to alter their family names, this bookbinder, music teacher, and composer became the cantor of Cologne’s Jewish Synagogue, which was destroyed in the carnage of the Second World War. From its ashes arose the new Cologne Opera House, where Dallas Opera General Director Karen Stone and I have both served. Jacob (later Jacques) Offenbach was born June 20, 1819, the seventh of ten children. He completed his studies in Paris and played for a time in the Orchestra of the Opéra-Comique. By 1858, he had scored a great success with his Orphée aux enfers. La belle Hélène, La vie parisienne, and La Grande-Duchess de Gérolstein soon followed. Following the 1870 siege of Paris, Offenbach’s fortunes took a decided downturn. America provided badly needed cash by
