As a 17 year old student at the Paris Conservatory in 1855, George Bizet composed a symphony that he soon forgot about and never mentioned in any of his notebooks or letters. Eighty years later, in ...
Bizet’s only symphony was composed in 1855 as a school exercise. The 17-year-old composer promptly forgot about the piece, and the manuscript was spotted in the archives of the Paris Consevatoire some ...