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Offenbach

noun
1.
French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880).  Synonym: Jacques Offenbach.





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"Offenbach" Quotes from Famous Books



... Helene, of Carmen and of Le Petit Duc. There are a few, I know, who think that Froufrou was written by the fertile and ingenious M. Victorien Sardou, and who, without thinking, credit M. Jacques Offenbach with the composition of the words as well as the music of the Grande Duchesse; and as for Carmen, is it not an Italian opera, and is not the book, like the music, the work of some Italian? As a matter of fact, all these plays, unlike ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various
 
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... cries, shaking my hand warmly. Then he sings, waving his hat in his left hand, and still grasping my right with his, "Voici le sabre de mon pere!" which reminiscence of OFFENBACH has no particular relevancy to anything at the present moment; but it evidently lets off some of his superfluous steam. He continues, always with my hand in his, "J'arrive! inattendu! Mais, mon cher,"—here ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 22, 1891 • Various
 
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... Bouffe introduced to New York City, by F. L. Bateman, at the French Theatre, where Offenbach's "La Grande Duchesse" ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee
 
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