Georges Bizet has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 15 episodes and was first played on 6 July 2014.

Georges Bizet (1838–1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era.

Bizet was born on 25th October 1838 in Paris. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, but was baptised Georges Bizet and was always known by the latter name. A child prodigy, he entered the prestigious Paris Conservatory of Music a fortnight before his tenth birthday.

In 1857 he shared a prize offered by Jacques Offenbach for a setting of the one-act operetta Le docteur Miracle, and won the Prix…