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Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet
French composer
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Jules Massenet
Jules Massenet
French composer (1842-1912)
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer, cellist and impresario
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Daniel François Esprit Auber
Daniel François Esprit Auber
French composer
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Ambroise Thomas
Ambroise Thomas
French composer
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Manuel Rosenthal
Manuel Rosenthal
French composer and conductor
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André Bloch
André Bloch
French composer
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André Messager
André Messager
French opera composer and conductor
Ernest Guiraud
French composer and music teacher

Ernest Guiraud

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French composer and music teacher
Awards Received
Prix de Rome
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Music
Ernest Guiraud, photograph by G. Camus, c. 1890.

Ernest Guiraud (French: [giʁo]; 23 June 1837 – 6 May 1892) was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and for Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann).