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1819 – 1880Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)Died 5 October 1880, aged 61Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer famed for operettas such as Orpheus in the Underworld. He died in Paris on 5 October 1880, months before the premiere of his final work, The Tales of Hoffmann. His music helped define the sound of comic operetta in the nineteenth century.