Bizet, Georges
(1838–1875)> COMPOSER
Bizet, Georges (25 October 1838, Paris, 3 June 1875, Bougival), composer, gained admission to the Conservatory on 9 October 1848 with a precocious exhibition of skill at the piano, although he had not yet reached the required age of ten. When he was ten, he took first prize in solfeggio and captured the attention of Jacques Halévy . Later, but before he was 17, Bizet met Charles Gounod and published a piano reduction of La Nonne sanglante besides an arrangement of Gounod’s First Symphony in D…