Offenbach

Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) was a German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of German-Jewish ancestry, he was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory. Offenbach's numerous operettas, such as Orpheus in the Underworld were extremely popular in both France and the English-speaking world during the 1850s and 1860s. The Infernal Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld Act II, Scene 2 is famous outside classical circles as the music for the "Can-can". Saint-Saëns borrowed the Gallop, slowed it to a crawl and assigned it to the strings to represent the tortoise in The Carnival of the Animals.

Wikipedia More information for this classical composer and his music can be found at Wikipedia... Jacques Offenbach
Offenbach - Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffman)
Offenbach - barcarole - Classical Music - 03.34 - romantic, orchestra - Offenbachs Barcarolle from Act 3 of The Tales of Hoffman made in to a film in 1951 which was an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann 'The Tales of Hoffmann'. Also featured in the movie 'Life Is Beautiful'
Offenbach - Can Can (CanCan)
Offenbach - the can can - Classical Music - 02.11 - romantic, orchestra - cancan is French for tittle-tattle or scandal also spelled can-can, cancan or Can Can, The Galop infernal from Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Featured in the film Moulin rouge and covered by the skinhead band Bad Manners.

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