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Born
On October 25 1838 Bizet was born in Paris. His father was a hairdresser and his mother was a pianst. His mom taught him how to play the piano and he showed great intrest in music through out his childhood. -
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George Bizet's Life
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First Symphony
November 1855 Bizet wrote his 1st symphony called the Symphony in C as a student assighnment . -
Won Prize
1856 Bizet won a prize for writing the 'Symphony in C' . The reward was to go to Rome for 3 years, Germany for 1 year and Paris for one year. -
Touring Around Italy
1860 Bizet was travelling aroung Italy writing a symphony. He travelled through Rome, Venice , Florence and Naples. -
Mother's Death
While touring around Italy Bizet was informed his mother had a serious illness Bizet stopped travelling and retured to Paris to see his mother who shortly died after Bizet came to see her. -
Marie Reiter Gave Birth
June 1862 Marie Reiter , the family maid, gave birth to Jean Bizet and was believed to be Georges Half-Brother. -
Got Married
June 1869 Bizet got married to Genevive Halevy. Who was the daughter of a composer who taught Bizet . -
Franco Prussian War
The Franco Prussian War started on July 19th 1870 , Bizet and other composers joined the French National Guard . Due to this serveral of his work got held back. -
Fled to Paris
Because of the War , Bizet and his wife Genivive fled to Paris where Bizet assured himself he could continue with his life as a composer. -
Birth Of Bizet's Son
July 10th 1871 Genivive gave birth to Jacques Bizet, George Bizet's only son. -
Jeux d'enfants
1872 Bizet composed Jeux d'enfants a one act opera. -
Djamileh
May 1872 Bizet came out with another very sucessful one act opera peice called Djamileh. -
Carmen
1875 Bizet wrote Carmen based on a novella of the same title in 1846. It ran 37 performances in 3 months making this peice to this day the biggest sucess for Bizet. -
Death Of Bizet
1875 June 3rd a few miles away from Paris Bizet passed away after a swimming competition with Eli a son of a composer. Bizet felt a chill from the water which triggered sever fever prior to the heart attack , in that time even murder or suicde belived migh thave happened because they discovered a gun-shoot wound on Bizet.