Composer

Ten compositions were to be judged anonymously by the jury, in which Paul Hindmarsh, Oliver Waespi and Lucy Pankhurst were represented. EBBA Music Commission Chairman Paul Hindmarsh comments: “It has been an exceptional year. All ten compositions that we had to judge deserve much praise for the imagination, the craftsmanship […]

Many call the composition style of the German-born Jacques Offenbach “more French than French” and so he became the most popular composer of Napoleon III. Jakob Eberscht was his real name and he was born on 20.06.1819 in Cologne as the seventh (of ten) children. In order to give his