Léo Delibes
Clement Philibert Léo Delibes , known like Léo Delibes , is a French type-setter born with Saint-Germain-of-Valley (today a district of the Arrow) the February 21st 1836 and died in Paris the January 16th 1891.
Biography
Delibes studied with the Conservatoire of Paris and obtained a first price of Solfège in 1850. Its Ballet, Coppélia , played with the Opera of Paris in 1870, was a triumph. Based on a history of the German writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, it tells the destiny of old Dr. Coppelius and his Coppélia headstock. In 1876, it published Sylvia , ballet whose action proceeds in Greece. Large amateur of dance, Tchaïkovsky admired these two ballets. In 1882, it wrote a pastiche of airs and dances old for the King has fun Victor Hugo, which provided later the subject of the Rigoletto of Verdi.Its famous opera Lakmé , which tells the impossible love of a British officer and of the girl of a priest of Brahma, in the India of the 19th century, its glory confirmed. The Scene and legend of the girl of , known as Air of the small bells is a purple passage for the sopranos Colorature S. His duet From which do you come bet? What do you want? is also famous. In 1884, Delibes is elected member of the Académie of the Art schools.
Delibes remains in the memories like a Master of the French, light and mélodieuse tradition musical, as he proclaimed it itself: “For my part, I am grateful with Wagner emotions very sharp that it made me feel, of enthusiasms that it raised in me. But if, like listener, I dedicated to the German Master a deep admiration, I refuse, as producer, to imitate it. ”
He died by leaving an unfinished opera, Kassya , which will be orchestrated by Jules Massenet.
Principal works
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Ballet S:
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Melody S:
To discover Delibes
- Three Ballets - Coppelia, Sylvia & the Source by the National Philharmonic Orchestrated directed by Richard Bonynge. N.B. : This recording combines the advantages of a recognized artistic quality, a technical good quality and one generous duration. However, the present suggestion reflects only the opinion of a wikipedist and could not be regarded as an indisputable reference, as well with regard to the choice of work as that of sound interprétation.
External bonds
- Léo Delibes on musicologie.org
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