Delibes Leo
Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a Fr… Read Full Bio ↴Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage. His most notable works include ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876) as well as the operas Le roi l'a dit (1873) and Lakmé (1883).
Léo Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, now part of La Flèche (Sarthe), France, in 1836. His father was a mailman, his mother a talented amateur musician. His grandfather had been an opera singer. He was raised mainly by his mother and uncle following his father's early death. In 1871, at the age of 35, the composer married Léontine Estelle Denain. His brother Michel Delibes migrated to Spain; he was the grandfather of Spanish writer Miguel Delibes.
Starting in 1847, Delibes studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire as a student of Adolphe Adam. A year later he began taking voice lessons, though he would end up a much better organ player than singer. He held positions as a rehearsal accompanist and chorus master at the Théâtre Lyrique, as second chorus master at the Paris Opéra (in 1864), and as organist at Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot (1865–71). The first of his many operettas was Deux sous de charbon, ou Le suicide de Bigorneau ("Two sous-worth of coal"), written in 1856 for the Folies-Nouvelles.
A ceremonial cantata, Algers, for Napoleon III on the theme of Algiers, brought him to official attention; a collaboration with Léon Minkus resulted, in which his contribution of an act's worth of musical numbers for a ballet La source (1866) brought him into the milieu of ballet. Delibes achieved true fame in 1870 with the success of his ballet Coppélia; its title referred to a mechanical dancing doll that distracts a village swain from his beloved and appears to come to life. His other ballet is Sylvia (1876). It has recently been claimed that he also wrote the ballet music for Gounod's "Faust"[citation needed] which had been inserted ten years after the original performance of the opera.
Delibes also composed various operas, the last of which, the lush orientalizing Lakmé (1883), contains, among many dazzling numbers, the famous coloratura showpiece known as the Légende du Paria or Bell Song ("Où va la jeune Indoue?") and The Flower Duet ("Sous le dôme épais"), a barcarolle that British Airways commercials made familiar to non-opera-goers in the 1990s. At the time, his operas impressed Tchaikovsky enough for the composer to rate Delibes more highly than Brahms—although this may seem faint praise when one considers that the Russian composer considered Brahms "a giftless bastard."[citation needed]
In 1867 Delibes composed the divertissement Le jardin animé for a revival of the Joseph Mazilier/Adolphe Adam ballet Le corsaire. He wrote a mass, his Messe brève, and composed operettas almost yearly and occasional music for the theater, such as dances and antique airs for Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse, the play that Verdi turned into Rigoletto. Some musicologists believe that the ballet in Gounod's Faust was actually composed by Delibes.
Delibes died in in Paris in 1891, at the age of 54. He was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. Delibes' work is known to have been a great influence on composers such as Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Debussy. His ballet Sylvia was of special interest to Tchaikovsky, who wrote of Delibes' score: ". . . what charm, what wealth of melody! It brought me to shame, for had I known of this music, I would have never written Swan Lake.
Operas and operettas
See List of operas and operettas by Delibes.
[edit]Other vocal music
La Marseillaise, arrangement for male voices (date unknown)
Noël, for 3 voices
Les prix, for 2 voices and accompaniment
Messe brève, for two children's voices and organ
C’est Dieu, for chorus
En avant, for 3 voices
Le dimanche, for 2 or 3 voices
Les norvégiennes, for 2 female voices and accompaniment
Les nymphes de bois, for 2 female voices and accompaniment
La nuit de Noël, for 4 male voices, 1859
Pastorale, for 4 male voices, 1865
Alger, cantate, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, 1865
Hymne de Noël, for chorus, 1865
Les lansquenets, for 4 male voices, 1866
Les chants lorrains, for 4 male voices, 1866
Marche de soldats, for 4 male voices, 1866
Avril, for chorus, 1866
Au printemps, for 3 voices, 1867
Chant de la paix, for 4 male voices, or 6 mixed voices, or 3 to 4 voices, 1867
Trianon, for 4 male voices, 1868
La cour des miracles, for 4 male voices, 1868
Les filles de Cadix, for solo voice, 1874
Les abeilles, for 3 voices, 1874
Les pifferari, for 3 voices, 1874
L’écheyeau de fil, for 3 voices, 1874
Le pommier, for 3 voices, 1877
La mort d’Orphée, lyrical scene for tenor and orchestra, 1877
Voyage enfantin, for 3 voices, 1884
[edit]Ballets
La source, ou Naila in 3 acts, 1866
Coppélia, ou La fille aux yeux d’émail in 3 acts, 1870
Sylvia, ou La nymphe de Diane in 3 acts, 1876 (piano arrangement, 1876; orchestral suite, 1880)
List of operas and operettas by Delibes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is list of operas and operettas written by the French composer Léo Delibes (1836–1891).
[edit]List
Title Genre Subdivisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre
La princesse Ravigote opéra comique 3 acts lost
Le Don Juan suisse opérette 4 acts lost
Le roi des montagnes opéra comique 3 acts unfinished
Deux sous de charbon ou Le suicide de bigorneau opérette (asphyxie lyrique) 1 act Jules Moinaux 9 February 1856 Paris, Folies-Nouvelles
Deux vieilles gardes opérette 1 act Théodore Ferdinand Vallon de Villeneuve and Alphonse Lemonnier 8 August 1856 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Six demoiselles à marier opérette 1 act Ernest Jaime and Adolphe Choler 12 November 1856 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Maître Griffard opéra comique 1 act Eugène Mestépès and Adolphe Jaime 3 October 1857 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
La fille du golfe opéra comique 1 act composed 1859, but unperformed?
L’omelette à la Follembuche opérette 1 act Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel 8 June 1859 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile opéra comique 1 act Philippe Gille 4 February 1860 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les musiciens de l’orchestre
(with Jacques Offenbach, Erlanger, and Hignard) opérette 2 acts Philippe August Pittaud de Forges and A. Bourdois 25 January 1861 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les eaux d'Ems comedy 1 act Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy Summer 1862 Bad Ems, Kursaal
Mon ami Pierrot opérette 1 act Lockroy (Joseph Philippe Simon) July 1862 Bad Ems, Kursaal
Le jardinier et son seigneur opéra comique 1 act Michel Carré and Théodore Barrière 1 May 1863 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
Le tradition prologue en verse 1 act H Derville 5 January 1864 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Grande nouvelle opérette 1 act A Boisgonnier composed 1864, but unperformed?
Le serpent à Plumes farce 1 act Philippe Gille and Cham (Amédée de Noé) 16 December 1864 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Le boeuf Apis opéra comique 2 acts Philippe Gille and Eugène Furpille 15 April 1865 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre
(4th act only, together with
Georges Bizet, E. Jonas and I. Legouix) opérette 4 acts Paul Siraudin and William-Bertrand Busnach 13 December 1867 Paris, Théâtre de l'Athénée
L’écossais de Chatou opérette 1 act Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime 16 January 1869 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
La cour du roi Pétaud opéra comique 3 acts Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime 24 April 1869 Paris, Théâtre des Variétés
Fleur-de-lys 1 act Henry Brougham Farnie 5 April 1873 London, The Royal Philharmonic Theatre
Le roi l’a dit opéra comique 3 acts Edmond Gondinet 24 May 1873 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Jean de Nivelle opéra 3 acts Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille 8 March 1880 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Lakmé opéra 3 acts Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti 14 April 1883 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Kassya (unfinished, completed by Jules Massenet) drame lyrique 4 acts Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille 24 March 1893 Paris, Opéra-Comique
- wikipedia
Léo Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, now part of La Flèche (Sarthe), France, in 1836. His father was a mailman, his mother a talented amateur musician. His grandfather had been an opera singer. He was raised mainly by his mother and uncle following his father's early death. In 1871, at the age of 35, the composer married Léontine Estelle Denain. His brother Michel Delibes migrated to Spain; he was the grandfather of Spanish writer Miguel Delibes.
Starting in 1847, Delibes studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire as a student of Adolphe Adam. A year later he began taking voice lessons, though he would end up a much better organ player than singer. He held positions as a rehearsal accompanist and chorus master at the Théâtre Lyrique, as second chorus master at the Paris Opéra (in 1864), and as organist at Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot (1865–71). The first of his many operettas was Deux sous de charbon, ou Le suicide de Bigorneau ("Two sous-worth of coal"), written in 1856 for the Folies-Nouvelles.
A ceremonial cantata, Algers, for Napoleon III on the theme of Algiers, brought him to official attention; a collaboration with Léon Minkus resulted, in which his contribution of an act's worth of musical numbers for a ballet La source (1866) brought him into the milieu of ballet. Delibes achieved true fame in 1870 with the success of his ballet Coppélia; its title referred to a mechanical dancing doll that distracts a village swain from his beloved and appears to come to life. His other ballet is Sylvia (1876). It has recently been claimed that he also wrote the ballet music for Gounod's "Faust"[citation needed] which had been inserted ten years after the original performance of the opera.
Delibes also composed various operas, the last of which, the lush orientalizing Lakmé (1883), contains, among many dazzling numbers, the famous coloratura showpiece known as the Légende du Paria or Bell Song ("Où va la jeune Indoue?") and The Flower Duet ("Sous le dôme épais"), a barcarolle that British Airways commercials made familiar to non-opera-goers in the 1990s. At the time, his operas impressed Tchaikovsky enough for the composer to rate Delibes more highly than Brahms—although this may seem faint praise when one considers that the Russian composer considered Brahms "a giftless bastard."[citation needed]
In 1867 Delibes composed the divertissement Le jardin animé for a revival of the Joseph Mazilier/Adolphe Adam ballet Le corsaire. He wrote a mass, his Messe brève, and composed operettas almost yearly and occasional music for the theater, such as dances and antique airs for Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse, the play that Verdi turned into Rigoletto. Some musicologists believe that the ballet in Gounod's Faust was actually composed by Delibes.
Delibes died in in Paris in 1891, at the age of 54. He was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. Delibes' work is known to have been a great influence on composers such as Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Debussy. His ballet Sylvia was of special interest to Tchaikovsky, who wrote of Delibes' score: ". . . what charm, what wealth of melody! It brought me to shame, for had I known of this music, I would have never written Swan Lake.
Operas and operettas
See List of operas and operettas by Delibes.
[edit]Other vocal music
La Marseillaise, arrangement for male voices (date unknown)
Noël, for 3 voices
Les prix, for 2 voices and accompaniment
Messe brève, for two children's voices and organ
C’est Dieu, for chorus
En avant, for 3 voices
Le dimanche, for 2 or 3 voices
Les norvégiennes, for 2 female voices and accompaniment
Les nymphes de bois, for 2 female voices and accompaniment
La nuit de Noël, for 4 male voices, 1859
Pastorale, for 4 male voices, 1865
Alger, cantate, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, 1865
Hymne de Noël, for chorus, 1865
Les lansquenets, for 4 male voices, 1866
Les chants lorrains, for 4 male voices, 1866
Marche de soldats, for 4 male voices, 1866
Avril, for chorus, 1866
Au printemps, for 3 voices, 1867
Chant de la paix, for 4 male voices, or 6 mixed voices, or 3 to 4 voices, 1867
Trianon, for 4 male voices, 1868
La cour des miracles, for 4 male voices, 1868
Les filles de Cadix, for solo voice, 1874
Les abeilles, for 3 voices, 1874
Les pifferari, for 3 voices, 1874
L’écheyeau de fil, for 3 voices, 1874
Le pommier, for 3 voices, 1877
La mort d’Orphée, lyrical scene for tenor and orchestra, 1877
Voyage enfantin, for 3 voices, 1884
[edit]Ballets
La source, ou Naila in 3 acts, 1866
Coppélia, ou La fille aux yeux d’émail in 3 acts, 1870
Sylvia, ou La nymphe de Diane in 3 acts, 1876 (piano arrangement, 1876; orchestral suite, 1880)
List of operas and operettas by Delibes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is list of operas and operettas written by the French composer Léo Delibes (1836–1891).
[edit]List
Title Genre Subdivisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre
La princesse Ravigote opéra comique 3 acts lost
Le Don Juan suisse opérette 4 acts lost
Le roi des montagnes opéra comique 3 acts unfinished
Deux sous de charbon ou Le suicide de bigorneau opérette (asphyxie lyrique) 1 act Jules Moinaux 9 February 1856 Paris, Folies-Nouvelles
Deux vieilles gardes opérette 1 act Théodore Ferdinand Vallon de Villeneuve and Alphonse Lemonnier 8 August 1856 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Six demoiselles à marier opérette 1 act Ernest Jaime and Adolphe Choler 12 November 1856 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Maître Griffard opéra comique 1 act Eugène Mestépès and Adolphe Jaime 3 October 1857 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
La fille du golfe opéra comique 1 act composed 1859, but unperformed?
L’omelette à la Follembuche opérette 1 act Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel 8 June 1859 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile opéra comique 1 act Philippe Gille 4 February 1860 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les musiciens de l’orchestre
(with Jacques Offenbach, Erlanger, and Hignard) opérette 2 acts Philippe August Pittaud de Forges and A. Bourdois 25 January 1861 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les eaux d'Ems comedy 1 act Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy Summer 1862 Bad Ems, Kursaal
Mon ami Pierrot opérette 1 act Lockroy (Joseph Philippe Simon) July 1862 Bad Ems, Kursaal
Le jardinier et son seigneur opéra comique 1 act Michel Carré and Théodore Barrière 1 May 1863 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
Le tradition prologue en verse 1 act H Derville 5 January 1864 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Grande nouvelle opérette 1 act A Boisgonnier composed 1864, but unperformed?
Le serpent à Plumes farce 1 act Philippe Gille and Cham (Amédée de Noé) 16 December 1864 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Le boeuf Apis opéra comique 2 acts Philippe Gille and Eugène Furpille 15 April 1865 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre
(4th act only, together with
Georges Bizet, E. Jonas and I. Legouix) opérette 4 acts Paul Siraudin and William-Bertrand Busnach 13 December 1867 Paris, Théâtre de l'Athénée
L’écossais de Chatou opérette 1 act Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime 16 January 1869 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
La cour du roi Pétaud opéra comique 3 acts Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime 24 April 1869 Paris, Théâtre des Variétés
Fleur-de-lys 1 act Henry Brougham Farnie 5 April 1873 London, The Royal Philharmonic Theatre
Le roi l’a dit opéra comique 3 acts Edmond Gondinet 24 May 1873 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Jean de Nivelle opéra 3 acts Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille 8 March 1880 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Lakmé opéra 3 acts Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti 14 April 1883 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Kassya (unfinished, completed by Jules Massenet) drame lyrique 4 acts Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille 24 March 1893 Paris, Opéra-Comique
- wikipedia
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Léo Delibes Lyrics
Bonjour Suzon ! Bonjour Suzon ma fleur des bois! Es tu toujours la plus…
Bonjour, Suzon ! Bonjour Suzon ma fleur des bois! Es tu toujours la plus…
Flower Duet Ce quartier qui résonne dans ma tête Ce passé qui me…
Les Filles de Cadix Nous venions de voir le taureau Trois garçons, trois fillett…
The Flower Duet Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin À la rose…