Jean-Luc Tingaud, the conductor, studied with Manuel Rosenthal, who was himself a pupil of the renowned French composer Maurice Ravel.
Composition History
Bizet's Marche funèbre in B minor originated as the Prélude to his lost opera La coupe du roi de Thulé, which was an entry in an 1867 competition.
Composer Biography
Bizet won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857, which allowed him three years at the Villa Medici in Rome, with special permission to remain there for the final year.
Composition History
The Overture in A minor was Bizet's first orchestral composition, written around 1855, but it remained unpublished and apparently unperformed during his lifetime.
Composer Biography
Bizet married the daughter of his teacher Fromental Halévy, a prolific opera composer, whose daughter, like her mother, suffered from intermittent bouts of mental instability.
Historical Context
Bizet's dramatic overture Patrie was written in 1873 in the patriotic aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, aiming to capture that mood.
Composer Biography
Georges Bizet, the composer, was the son of a singing teacher and entered the Conservatoire at the age of ten, receiving lessons from Charles Gounod.
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