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- NAME: Jacques Offenbach
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter
- BIRTH DATE: June 20, 1819
- DEATH DATE: October 05, 1880
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Cologne, Germany
- PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
- Originally: Jacob Offenbah
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Jacques Offenbach was a prolific composer who created a new type French comic opera called the operette.
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Born in 1819, Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer of the Romantic era. He created a new type French comic opera called the operette, a style which combined political satire with grand opera parodies. His Orpheus in the Underworld and La belle Helene were tremendously popular in France and the English-speaking world during the 1850s and 1860s. His work remains in opera's repertory.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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