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Georges Bizet's (1838 * 1875)
Georges Bizet - French composer of the largest of the second half of the XIX century, the creator of the immortal work for musical theater - "Carmen" and the wonderful music to the drama of Alphonse Daudet "Arlezianka".
Bizet is one of the progressive French artists who created at the time of the Second Empire and the Third Republic Democratic, full of deep content of the work life. Completion of a creative way Bizet marked a great victory - the creation of a realistic musical drama. Bizet's brilliantly managed to solve the problem, which in other national cultures posed and performed his great contemporaries - Verdi, Wagner. Bizet creativity inherent accuracy and clarity of thought, originality and freshness of the means of expression, elegance and completeness of the form. Bizet inherent severity of psychological analysis in understanding human emotions and behavior, characteristic of the composer's works great compatriots - writers Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant.
Central to the work by Bizet, diverse in genre, the opera belongs to. Opera composer appeared on national soil and nourished by the traditions of French opera.
Opera Theatre of France, who was formerly one of the leading places in the world of art, the 60th of the XIX century, is losing the cutting edge. "Big," an opera, once reflected the social rise of the nation, has become a meaningless spectacular, comic opera was mindless and purely entertaining.
Lyric Opera, which arose in the middle of the century, with all the artistic merits of her best designs, was devoid of bright innovative aspirations. Bourgeois public in France only a mile from her operetta shiny dresses and frivolous subjects. During these years, Bizet's opera composer began way.
The first opera by Bizet, started in the late 50's and 60's, should be regarded as a trial of strength, young, inexperienced talent, experiencing himself in different genres.
Critically using the achievements of French opera, Bizet's boldly and decisively rejected in his best works are crumbling and the dead, which prevented him to meet new creative challenges. Difficult and thorny was the path of the composer: the public recognition of the bourgeois of France, he has not received. Only the strength and purposefulness of great talent, a contempt for life benefits have helped to make his creative Bizet feat.
Short life of the composer (he lived hardly thirty seven years old) was full of tireless inquisitive quests that are on the shoulder just brilliant artist. In the fight against prejudices of bourgeois society, Bizet's found a way to realism in the opera genre. His creative aspirations were a manifestation of the general growth of realistic tendencies in French art (Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, and Gustave Courbet).
Creating the best works of the composer coincided with major developments in the social life of France Franco-Prussian War ended in defeat for France and the collapse of the Second Empire, and the first in history of the proletarian revolution - the Paris Commune.
These events have shaken the French nation that led to the courage and originality of thought that distinguish works by Bizet in the 70s. Number of works
them completely finished, is relatively small. But the fact that he managed to create Bizet in his short life, enough to talk about his great contribution to the treasury of world art. |