Billy Ray Cyrus - My Everything (Chorus)

Bizet (Bizet) Georges (Alexander César Leopold, baptized as Georges) (25 X 1838, Paris - 3 VI 1875, Bougival, near Paris) - French composer. Father is a teacher of singing, mother is a pianist (she was the first teacher of music for her son). 10 years B. entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied with A. F. Marmontel (fp.), F. Benoit (organ), P. Zimmermann, as well as C. Gounod (counterpoint and fugue), J. F. E. Halevi (composition). Being a gifted pianist (he was highly appreciated by F. Liszt, G. Berlioz), B. abandoned the career of a concert virtuoso and devoted himself entirely to creativity. Already in the symphony of C-dur (1855, written in 17 days), the individual appeared. B.'s style - clarity and liveliness of expression, architectonic. harmony, light, sunny color. In the year of graduating from the conservatory (1857), B. simultaneously worked on the one-act operetta “Doctor Miracle” (award at the competition,declared by J. Offenbach) and a cantata for a plot from the Merovingian era “Clovis and Clotilde” (Rome, etc., 1857). In 1857-60, B. as a laureate of the conservatory was in Italy. Neglecting the requirements of the conservatory, instead of reporting a cantata on spiritual topics, he wrote a comedian. the opera Don Procopio (1859) on a plot close to Rossini’s Barber of Seville, which angered the professors of the conservatory.