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The Georges Bizet Quiz

How much do you know about this French legend?
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Bizet was born in this French city in 1838
Paris
Bizet's mother Aimée played this instrument
Piano
Childhood friend of Bizet, composer of Samson and Delilah
Camille Saint-Saëns
Orientalist opera set on the Sri Lankan coast
The Pearl Fishers
Despite the above's initially lukewarm reception, this composer (author of the Symphonie fantastique) praised it
Hector Berlioz
Bizet's wife, a French salonnière
Geneviève Halévy
The above inspired several characters in this author's novel In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
Bizet's illegitimate son, press director of Le Temps and an Officer of the Legion of Honour
Jean Reiter
Bizet's only legitimate child, a physician and businessman
Jacques Bizet
Bizet served in the National Guard during this war
Franco-Prussian War
He temporarily left Paris after the establishment of this political entity
Paris Commune
Alphonse Daudet's play to which Bizet wrote incidental music, nowadays often played separately in the form of two suites
L'Arlésienne
One act opéra comique about a slave-girl in Cairo
Djamileh
Country where Bizet's most famous opera, Carmen, is set
Spain
Job of the heroine's final lover
Bullfighter
This composer, Bizet's mentor, accused Bizet of plagiarism after Carmen's premiere
Charles Gounod
This German philosopher claimed to know Carmen by heart
Friedrich Nietzsche
Carmen is said to have anticipated this post-Romantic operatic movement, Italian for "realism"
Verismo
Bizet died of this only three months after Carmen's premiere, convinced of the opera's failure
Heart attack
Bizet's age at death (accepted margin of error 2 years)
36
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