 Bizet 's piano works have not entered the concert pianist 's repertoire , and are generally too difficult for amateurs to attempt . An exception is the set of 12 pieces evoking the world of children 's games , Jeux d 'enfants , written for four hands . Here , Bizet avoided the virtuoso passages which tend to dominate his solo works . The earlier solo pieces bear the influence of Chopin ; later works , such as the Variations <unk> and the Chasse Fantastique , owe more to Liszt . Most of Bizet 's songs were written in the period 1866 – 68 . Dean defines the main weaknesses in these songs as an unimaginative repetition of the same music for each verse , and a tendency to write for the orchestra rather than the voice . Much of Bizet 's larger @-@ scale vocal music is lost ; the early Te Deum , which survives in full , is rejected by Dean as " a wretched work [ that ] merely illustrates Bizet 's unfitness to write religious music . " 
