The French famous composers Comenius

Berlioz Hector Berlioz was born on December 11th 1803 in Côte-Saint- André. At the age of 10, he chad flute and guitar lessons. In 1816 he composed his first composition for Flageolet and other popular compositions. In 1821, he entered the medicine school in Paris but he spent most of his time reading and copying musical works.

Works : He wrote Le Cheval Arabe, Six Romances and he composes an opera on Estelle et Némorin and in 1830 the Symphonie Fantastique (the biggest work of Hector Berlioz).

Offenbach Jacques Offenbach was a French cellist and composer from German Origin, he was born in Cologne, on 20th June 1819 and he died in Paris on 5th October He studied at the conservatoire de Paris, but he was dismissed for lack of discipline. Director of music director at the comédie Francaise, then, he ran a theatre.He lived in Paris, Vienna, and Baden-Baden.

Works: Orpheus in the Underworl( ) La Belle Hélène (1864) La Vie Parisienne ( ) The Grande-duchesse of Gerolstein (1867) The Perichole ( ) The Drum Major’s Daugter(1879) Les Tales d’Hoffmann (1881, op. posth.)

Debussy He was born on August 22nd in Saint- Germain-en-Laye and he died in Paris on March 25th 1918.He is a great pianist. He compsed the first melodies in 1879 from texts by Alfred de Musset. He is a classical music composer. He won lots of prizes,he composed five poems by Baudelaire and the “Fantasie” a piano and orchestra and many other works.

Works : The third and most famous movement of Suite bergamasque is "Clair de lune," meaning "moonlight" in French.Its name comes from Paul Verlaine's poem of the same name which also refers to bergamasque in its opening stanza. Much of the movement is played pianissimo, and back and five between great emotional intensity and a long distance make it a masterpiece of the Impressionist period. It is played in D flat major, except for its point of greatest Intensity, in C sharp minor.

Ravel Ravel was born on March 7th,1875 in the Pays- Basque, France. He began playing the piano at the age of six and at fourteen, he played his first concert in public. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. He began composing around Ravel was expelled from the Conservatoire in 1895 but he came back in He began his studies with Gabriel Fauré. His first important work is Habanera and his first published work was Menuet Antique. Ravel died on December 28th, 1937 at the age of 62 years old from a brain injury due to a car accident in 1932.

Works : Ravel’s Bolero (1928) Pictures at an Exhibition (1922) Daphnis and Chloe (between ) Concerto in G ( ) Mother Goose (1910)

Saint Saens Camille Saint-Saens is a famous French composer of the nineteenth and twentieth century. He was born on October 9, th 1835 in Paris. He was compared to Mozart because of his early musical talents: at two, he was already good at the piano. He wrote his first symphony at the age of 18. He was admired by Franz Liszt who became has friend. 10 works participate in the success of Camille Saint-Saens. Le carnaval des animaux, Samson, Dalila and La danse macabre. He died at the age of 86, December 16 th 1921 in Algiers.

Works : Dance of Death Danse Macabre is a symphonic poem composed in 1874 by Camille Saint-Saens from a poem by Henri Cazalis. All instruments come to play a role, they are real actors. Thus, the xylophone is the skeletons dancing at night. Indeed, it is the sound of their slamming bones the composer featured here. The violins beat out the rhythm on loud coughing and remind the winter wind and the diminished fifth out the beginning (the-E flat) does suggest the drought and the bitterness of the season. The harp sounds the stroke of midnight, and the solo violin symbolizes death striking on the graves to wake up the dead. Played for the first time on January 24, th 1875, under the direction of Edward Colonne, this work was denigrated by the public. It is now a famous work.