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See also:DELIBES, See also:CLEMENT PHILIBERT See also:LEO (1836–1891) , See also:French composer, was See also:born at See also:Saint Germain du Val on the 21st of See also:February 1836. He studied at the See also:Paris See also:Conservatoire under Adolphe See also:Charles See also:Adam, through whose See also:influence he became accompanist at the See also:Theatre Lyrique. His first See also:essay in dramatic See also:composition was his Deux sous de charbon (1853), and during several years he produced a number of operettas. His See also:cantata See also:Alger was heard at the Paris See also:opera in 1865. Having become second See also:chorus See also:master at the See also:Grand Opera, he wrote the See also:music of a See also:ballet entitled La Source for this theatre, in collaboration with Minkous, a See also:Polish composer. La Source was produced with See also:great success in 1866. The composer returned to the operetta See also:style with Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre,—written in collaboration with Georges Bizet, Emile See also:Jonas and Legouix, and given at the Theatre de 1'Athenee in 1867. Two years later came L'Ecossais de Chatou, a one-See also:act piece, and La Cour du roi Petaud, a three-act opera-bouffe. The ballet Coppelia was produced at the Grand Opera on the 25th of May 187o with enormous success.
Delibes gave up his See also:post as second chorus master at the Grand Opera in 1872 when he married the daughter of Mademoiselle See also:Denain, formerly an actress at the Comedie Francaise. In this See also:year he published a collection of graceful melodies including Myrto, See also:Les Filles de See also:Cadiz, Bonjour, Suzan and others. His first important dramatic See also:work was Le Roi l'a dit, a charming comic opera, produced on the 24th of May 1873 at' the Opera Comique. Three years later, on the 14th of See also:June 1876, Sylvia, a ballet in three acts,
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one of the composer's most delightful See also:works, was produced at the Grand Opera. This was followed by La Mort d'Orphee, a grand scena produced at the Trocadero concerts in 1878 ; by See also:Jean de Nivelle, a three-act opera brought out at the Opera Comique on the 8th of See also:March 188o; and by Lakme, an opera in three acts produced at the same theatre on the 14th of See also:April 1883. Lakme has remained his most popular opera. The composer died in Paris on the 16th of See also:January 1891, leaving Kassya, a four-act opera, in an unfinished See also:state. This work was completed by E. See also:Guiraud, and produced at the Opera Comique on the 21st of March 1893. In 1877 Delibes became a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour; in 1881 he became a See also:professor of advanced composition at the Conservatoire; in 1884 he took the See also:place of See also:Victor Masse at the Institut de See also:France.
Leo Delibes was a typically French composer. His music is See also:light, graceful and refined. He excelled in ballet music, and Sylvia may well be considered a masterpiece. His operas are constructed on a conventional See also:pattern. The See also:harmonic texture, however, is See also:modern, and the melodic invention abundant, while the orchestral treatment is invariably excellent.
End of Article: DELIBES, CLEMENT PHILIBERT LEO (1836–1891)
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