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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



... The good Offenbach has had another failure at the Opera-Comique with Fantasio. Shall one ever get to hating piffle? That would be a fine step on ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
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... hath not shall be given what the other man could use to such advantage! The composer who can both pucker the lips of the gallery-gods and satisfy the ears of the musical critics, how infrequent a visitor on this planet! so that Offenbach and Sullivan must often have suffered from loneliness. The singer who can also act, how rare a song-bird! The interpreter of the lieder of Franz or Schubert or Grieg who will sacrifice vocal ...
— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton
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