Bizet's L'Aurore

L'Aurore (The Morning) is the first piece of Georges Bizet's Chants du Rhin (Songs of the Rhine), WD 52, six short gems for piano solo published in 1865:

1. L'Aurore (The Morning)

2. Le Départ (Departure)

3. Les Rêves (Dreams)

4. La Bohémienne (The Bohemian)

5. Les Confidences (The Confessions)

6. Le Retour (The Return)

Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) was a French composer, mainly of operas. His masterpieces Carmen, the L'Arlésienne Suites, the Symphony in C, and Jeux d'enfants (for piano four-hands) are good indications of what Bizet might have achieved had his life not been cut short by illness.

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