Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) was a composer of German birth who took French citizenship and became famous in Paris for his comic operettas, a genre he created, and for the more serious opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. A virtuoso cellist, conductor, and prolific composer of stage works, Offenbach was hugely popular across Europe through the 1860s.
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1819 - 1880Life of the composer Jacques Offenbach.
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20 Jun 1819The composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Cologne in Germany.
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1833The family of Jacques Offenbach moves to Paris.
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1844Jacques Offenbach marries Herminie Mitchell.
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1855Jacques Offenbach rents his own theatre, the Bouffes-Parisiens, to showcase his operettas.
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1856Jacques Offenbach coins the term "operetta" for his own show La rose de Saint-Flour.
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1858Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld.
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1859Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta Geneviève de Brabant.
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1864Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta The Beautiful Helen.
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1866Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta La vie parisienne.
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1867Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.
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1868Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta La Périchole.
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1876Jacques Offenbach tours the United States.
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5 Oct 1880The composer Jacques Offenbach dies in Paris.
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Feb 1881Premiere of the opera The Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach.
