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LALO, EDOUARD (1823-1892)

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LALO, EDOUARD (1823-1892) , See also:French composer, was See also:born at See also:Lille, on the 27th of See also:January 1823. He began his musical studies at the See also:conservatoire at Lille, and in See also:Paris attended the See also:violin classes of Habeneck. For several years Lalo led a modest and retired existence, playing the See also:viola in the quartet party organized by Armingaud and See also:Jacquard, and in composing chamber See also:music. His See also:early See also:works include two trios, a quartet, and several pieces for violin and See also:pianoforte. In 1867 he took See also:part in an operatic competition, an See also:opera from his See also:pen, entitled Fiesque, obtaining the third See also:place out of See also:forty-three. This See also:work was accepted for See also:production at the Paris Opera, but delays occurred, and nothing was done. Fiesque was next offered to the See also:Theatre de la Monnaie, See also:Brussels, and was about to be produced there when the manager became bankrupt. Thus, when nearly fifty years of See also:age, Lalo found himself in difficulties. Fiesque was never performed, but the composer published the pianoforte See also:score, and eventually employed some of the music in other works. After the Franco-See also:German See also:war French composers found their opportunity in the See also:concert-See also:room. Lalo was one of these, and during the succeeding ten years several interesting works from his pen were produced, among them a See also:sonata for See also:violoncello, a " divertissement " for See also:orchestra, a violin See also:concerto and the Symphonie Espagnole for violin and orchestra, one of his best-known compositions. In the meanwhile he had written a second opera, Le Roi d'Ys, which he hoped would be produced at the Opera.

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administration offered him the " scenario " of a See also:ballet instead. Lalo was obliged to be content with this, and set to work with so much See also:energy that he See also:fell See also:ill, the last scenes of the ballet being orchestrated by See also:Gounod. Namouna, the ballet in question, was produced at the Opera in 1882. Six years later, on the 7th of May 1888, Le Roi d'Ys was brought out at the Opera Comique, and Lalo was at last enabled to See also:taste the sweets of success. Unfortunately, fame came to him too See also:late in See also:life. A pianoforte concerto and the music to Neron, a pantomimic piece played at the See also:Hippodrome in 1891, were his last two works. He had begun a new opera, but had, only written the first See also:act when, on the 23rd of See also:April 1892, he died. This opera, La See also:Jacquerie, was finished by See also:Arthur Coquard, and was produced in 1895 at See also:Monte Carlo, See also:Aix-See also:les-Bains and finally in Paris. Lalo had distinct originality, discernible in hisemployment of curious rhythmic devices. His music is ever ingenious and brilliantly effective. LA MADDALENA, an See also:island 22 M. from the N.E. See also:coast of See also:Sardinia. Pop.

(1901) 8361. See also:

Napoleon bombarded it in 1793 without success, and See also:Nelson made it his headquarters for some See also:time. It is now an important See also:naval station of the See also:Italian See also:fleet, the anchorage being See also:good, and is strongly fortified. A See also:bridge and an See also:embankment connect it with See also:Caprera. It appears to have been inhabited in See also:Roman times.

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