Philippe Saisse is a French Grammy Award-nominated Smooth Jazz and New Age music keyboardist, producer and arranger. He became the protégé of Gary Burton and debuted on Al Di Meola's Splendido Hotel. He also worked with Nile Rodgers and Felicia Collins in the album Outloud and wrote for David ...
Eddy Louiss is a French jazz musician. His primary instrument is the Hammond organ. As a vocalist, he was a member of Les Double Six of Paris. He has worked with Kenny Clarke, René Thomas, and Jean-Luc Ponty. He was a member of the Stan Getz quartet that recorded the celebrated Getz album Dynasty. ...
Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr. ...
Georges Bizet was a French composer of the romantic era. Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome. He was ...
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist of the Romantic era. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Violin Concerto No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo ...
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, masterful orchestration, richly evocative harmonies and inventive instrumental textures and effects. He was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music. Much of his piano music, chamber music, ...
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction. Godard has composed six operas, five symphonies, a piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. Godard's ...
Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. He was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music. In France, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of ...
