¹ The first of these, now in its third edition, is Berlioz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, [1982] 2010).

² Pigot, Charles, Georges Bizet et son oeuvre (Paris: Ch. Delagrave, 1886; second edition 1911)Google Scholar; Dean, Winton, Bizet (London: J.M. Dent, 1947, second edition 1965, third edition 1975)Google Scholar; Curtiss, Mina, Bizet and his World (New York: Knopf, 1958)Google Scholar; Stricker, Rémy, Georges Bizet (Paris, 1999)Google Scholar; Lacombe, Hervé, Georges Bizet, Naissance d’une identité créatrice (Paris: Fayard, 2000)Google Scholar. In addition to her dissertation, ‘Bizet before Carmen’ (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1981), Lesley A. Wright has published numerous articles on sources for Bizet’s music and approaches to his style.

³ Steven Huebner discusses music’s potential to offer biographers of musicians to consider how music might reflect the subject’s inner life and its limits. See ‘Maurice Ravel: Private Life, Public Works’, in Pekacz, Jolanta T., ed., Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms (Farnham: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 69–87 Google Scholar, especially p. 74.

⁴ The image can be approximately dated from the red thread in the top buttonhole of Bizet’s jacket, which indicates he had received the medal of the Legion d’honneur, an award announced on 3 March 1875, the day that Carmen premiered.

⁵ See, for example, Huebner, Steven, The Operas of Charles Gounod (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990)Google Scholar, and Caballero, Carlo, Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)Google Scholar.