by Claude Dufresne · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782262013233
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«Offenbach, ou, La joie de vivre» is the biography of composer Jacques Offenbach written by Claude Dufresne and published by Perrin in paperback (286 pages).
Biography of French composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) that reviews his personal and artistic career, analyzes his musical output and assesses his influence on 19th-century music and culture. It combines the human portrait with the context of France at the time.
1998 edition in French; includes bibliographical references.
Claude Dufresne was a French writer, best known as the author of numerous historical biographies. He won many prizes among them the Prix Goncourt for biography. Among his subjects were Ninon de Lenclos, Anne de Bretagne, Francois I, George Sand, Balzac, Chopin, Morny, Bernard Blier, Hortense Schneider, the Marquise de Sevigne, Marie Antoinette, Marie Walewska, Jacques Offenbach, Luis Mariano, Tristan Bernard, Berlioz, Mistinguette, etc.
