Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (died 1880)

Jacques Offenbach

German-born French composer (1819–1880)

Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre,…