# Jacques Offenbach

> He wrote nearly 100 operettas in two decades and gave the world the can-can, turning Second Empire Paris into a stage for risqué humor and relentless melody. Offenbach's facility for tune and gentle satire made operetta an international currency.

*German-born French composer (1819–1880)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1819-06-20
- **Died:** 1880-10-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Cologne in 1819, the son of a synagogue cantor, Offenbach arrived at the Paris Conservatoire at 14, left after a year, and spent two decades as a cellist and conductor. Finding the Opéra-Comique uninterested in his comic pieces, he leased a small Champs-Élysées theatre in 1855 and staged more than two dozen of his own works in three years. Orphée aux enfers arrived in 1858 with its celebrated can-can and exceptional reception; through the 1860s he delivered at least eighteen full-length operettas — La belle Hélène, La Vie parisienne, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, La Périchole — that traveled to Vienna, London, and New York on the strength of melody and sexual intrigue lightly satirizing Napoleon III's court. The Franco-Prussian War and the empire's fall in 1870 left him out of favor in Paris for his German birth and imperial ties, but he remained successful abroad and re-established himself in the 1870s with revivals and a US tour. He died in 1880 before finishing The Tales of Hoffmann, which entered the repertory in versions completed by others.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Musicians, #Singer / Musician, #Classical, #France, #Europe, #19th Century

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