Leo Delibes (1836 - 1891)
France

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Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 ? 16 January 1891) was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage. Léo Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, now part of La Flèche (Sarthe), France, in 1836. His father was a mailman, but his mother was a talented amateur musician and his grandfather was 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. Delibes died 20 years later in 1891, and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. Starting in 1847, Delibes studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire as a student of Adolphe Adam. A year later, he also 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, second chorus master at the Paris Opéra, (1864), and as organist at Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot between 1865 and 1871. His first of many operettas was Deux sous de charbon ("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).

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?which seems faint praise when one considers that the Russian composer considered Brahms "a giftless bastard."

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.

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Pas des Esclaves from the Sylvia Ballet for Oboe & Piano (ILD 54)
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Arranger : MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL

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Strette Galop from the Sylvia Ballet for Wind Quintet (ILD 54)
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Woodwind quintet : Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn, Bassoon / 7 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Arranger : MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL

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Marche et Cortège de Bacchus from the Sylvia Ballet for Oboe & Strings (ILD 54)
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Oboe solo, String quartet / 7 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Arranger : MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL

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Cortége Rustique from the Sylvia Ballet for Wind Quintet (ILD 54)
Leo Delibes

Woodwind quintet : Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn, Bassoon / 7 PDF / 1 MP3 / Intermediate
Arranger : MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL

By magataganm, the 17 Aug 2020

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FLOWERS' DUO (Lakmé)
Leo Delibes

2 Oboes, Piano / 1 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : ZEHAR, Farid

By tavola-rustica, the 22 Apr 2019

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Entr'acte from Coppelia
Leo Delibes

Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon / 1 PDF / MIDI / Intermediate
Arranger : Wheelwright, Lance

By lwheel, the 22 May 2015

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"The Flower Duet" from the Opera opera Lakmé for Woodwind Trio
Leo Delibes

Wind Trio / 3 PDF / 1 MP3 /
Arranger : MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL

By magataganm, the 16 Apr 2012

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