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Georges Bizet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (615 words) |
 | A child prodigy, he entered the prestigious Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday. |
| His first symphony, the Symphony in C Major, was written at the Paris Conservatory when he was only seventeen years old, evidently as a student assignment. |
| A delightful work (and a prodigious one, from a seventeen-year-old boy), the symphony is noteworthy for bearing an amazing stylistic resemblance to the music of Franz Schubert, whose work was virtually unknown in Paris at that time (with the possible exception of a few of his songs). |
| Charles-Valentin Alkan - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (485 words) |
| Alkan Morhange (1780-1855) was the proprietor of a music school in Paris, and he early recognized among the musical talents of his sons the singular ones of young Charles-Valentin. |
| Consequently, at the age of five Alkan was enrolled in the Paris Conservatory of Music, the breeding ground.. |
| Consequently, at the age of five Alkan was enrolled in the Paris Conservatory of Music, the breeding ground of many outstanding musicians and composers in the 19th century. |
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