Symphony in C

Composer: BIZET, Georges
  • Bizet composed this symphony in 1855, when he was only 17 years old.
  • Bizet was a student at the Paris Conservatory when he composed this symphony. At the time, Bizet was assisting his conservatory professor, Charles Gounod, with arranging Gounod’s First Symphony. Bizet used Gounod’s symphony as a model for his own.
  • Bizet’s Symphony in C was not performed until 1935. The premiered took place in Basle on February 26, 1935, conducted by Felix Weingartner.1

Sources

  1. Hugh Macdonald, “Bizet, Georges,” Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press, 2001), accessed February 17, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000051829.

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