Georges Street, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Georges Street

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1854

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1908

Profession: author, theatre critic

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Georges Street

  • Georges Street (21 January 1854 – 6 February 1908) was a German-born French composer.
  • He was born in Hamburg, the son of Agnes Street-Klindworth (1825–1906) and an unknown father.
  • She had briefly been married to a Paris-born Englishman, Ernest Denis-Street, and her son, christened Ernst August Georg, was given the surname Street.
  • Agnes had an affair with the composer Franz Liszt in the mid 1850s, and some suspected that Liszt was the boy's father.
  • In 1868 Agnes moved to Paris together with her widowed father, and her sons Georges and his younger brother, Charles.Street showed musical talent, which his mother encouraged.
  • He took violin lessons with Hubert LĂ©onard and became a follower and supporter of Georges Bizet.
  • Together with AndrĂ© Messager, Maurice Lefèvre and Raoul Pugno, Street regularly played through the score of Bizet's Carmen, which they regarded as "the opera of the century".
  • The musical scholar Alan Walker comments that it was partly due to the advocacy of Street and Messager that the Paris OpĂ©ra took Carmen into its regular repertory.Street and Messager collaborated to compose the score of the 1891 ballet Scaramouche, to a scenario by Lefèvre and Henri Vuagneux.
  • Street's opĂ©rette Mignonette (1896), was a parody of Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon, written thirty years earlier.
  • Street's other theatre works include Au profit des pauvres, Le Dernier des Muelshausen, Kaen, and La Grande LĂ©gende.Later in his career Street became music critic for the newspapers L'Eclair and Le Matin, and was the founding editorial secretary of the latter.Street died in Paris at the age of fifty-four.

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