Jacques Offenbach – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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June 20, 1819 in Köln
†

October 5, 1880 in Paris
Komponist, Theaterdirektor, Kapellmeister

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Offenbach in the 1840s (Source: Wikimedia)

Early influences (clockwise from top left) Luigi Cherubini, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich von Flotow, Louis-Pierre Norblin (Source: Wikimedia)

Poster by Offenbach's friend Nadar (Source: Wikimedia)

Hortense Schneider, the first star created by Offenbach (Source: Wikimedia)

Programme for the 1875 London production of La Périchole (Source: Wikimedia)

The Tales of Hoffmann – scene from the premiere, showing Adèle Isaac as the dead Antonia, with (l. to r.) Hippolyte Belhomme, Marguerite Ugalde, Pierre Grivot, Émile-Alexandre Taskin, and Jean-Alexandre Talazac (Source: Wikimedia)

Librettists and successors (clockwise from top left) Ludovic Halévy, Henri Meilhac, Johann Strauss II, Arthur Sullivan (Source: Wikimedia)

Offenbach by André Gill, 1866 (Source: Wikimedia)

Dr Miracle and Antonia in the 1881 premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann (Source: Wikimedia)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A00112C6 (Version 6.0.1 of October 30, 2024)
Last change of this document on October 28, 2024

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Offenbach, Jacques