Compléter Text about Jacques OffenbachVersion en ligne Complete the text about Jacques Offenbach par Albert González Gallardo 1 premiere 1860s operettas Orpheus received Offenbach Hoffmann repertory Hoffmann 100 Hélène operas 1858 Paris 100 Orphée Offenbach 18 musicians Gérolstein romantic 1880 Jacques ( 1819 ? ) was a German composer and cellist of the period . He is remembered for his nearly operettas of the 1850s ? 1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of . At the age of 14 , he was accepted as a student at the Conservatory . In , Offenbach produced his first important operetta , aux enfers ( " in the Underworld " ) , which was exceptionally well . During the , he produced at least full - length operettas , included La belle , La vie parisienne , La Grande - Duchesse de and La Périchole . In his last years he strove to finish The Tales of , but died before the of the opera , which has entered the standard in versions completed or edited by other . By his own reckoning , composed more than operas . Both the number and the noun are open to question : some works were so extensively revised that he evidently counted the revised versions as new , and commentators generally refer to all but a few of his stage works as , rather than .