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Bizet Pearl Fisher's Duet for String QuartetBizet: The Pearl Fishers Duet (Au fond du temple saint) for String Quartet The Pearl Fishers Duet is…
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Bizet
Georges Bizet (1838–1875) entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine and won the Prix de Rome at nineteen, yet spent much of his career struggling to establish himself on the operatic stage. His Symphony in C major, written at seventeen and promptly set aside, lay unperformed for sixty years until Felix Weingartner conducted its premiere in Basel in 1935. Carmen received a cool reception at its Paris premiere in March 1875; Bizet died three months later, aged thirty-six, with no inkling that it would become one of the most performed operas ever written. His L'Arlésienne suites remain a staple of the string orchestra repertoire.