Leo Delibes (1836 - 1891)
France

France
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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Valse Lente (From the Ballet)
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Piano solo
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Added the 22 Dec 2007

La source (Valse, ou "Pas des Fleurs")
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Piano solo
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Added the 13 Dec 2013

Le roi s'amuse
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Orchestra
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Added the 13 Dec 2013

Le roi s'amuse
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Piano solo
2 PDF /

Added the 13 Dec 2013

À ma mignonne
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Piano and Voice
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Added the 13 Dec 2013

Lakmé
Delibes, Leo
1 Piano, 4 Hands (duet)
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Vilbac, Renaud de

Added the 13 Dec 2013

Auguste Bazille
Delibes, Leo
Piano solo
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Bazille, Auguste

Added the 13 Dec 2013

La source (Valse, ou "Pas des Fleurs")
Delibes, Leo
Violin and Piano
2 PDF /

Added the 13 Dec 2013

Passepied. Trascrizione da Concerto per Grande Organo (from: "Le Roi s'amuse")
Delibes, Leo
Organ solo
1 PDF /
Adaptator : MACHELLA, MAURIZIO

Added the 09 Apr 2014

Coppélia-Waltz. Trascrizione da Concerto per Grande Organo
Delibes, Leo
Organ solo
1 PDF / Easy
Adaptator : MACHELLA, MAURIZIO

Added the 06 Nov 2014

Pizzicati from "Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
Orchestra
1 PDF /

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Sylvia
Delibes, Leo
1 Piano, 4 Hands (duet)
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Vilbac, Renaud de

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Sylvia
Delibes, Leo
Piano solo
2 PDF /
Adaptator : Delibes, Leo

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Suite Concertante from "Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
1 Piano, 4 Hands (duet)
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Vilbac, Renaud de

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Valse lente from "Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
Violin and Piano
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Marsick, Martin Pierre

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Valse lente from"Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
Flute and Piano
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Taffanel, Paul

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Valse lente from "Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
Piano solo
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Delibes, Leo

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Variation dansée "Pizzicati" from "Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
1 piano 6 hands
1 PDF /

Adaptator : Anschütz, Jacques-Albert

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Variation dansée "Pizzicati" from "Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
1 Piano, 4 Hands (duet)
1 PDF /
Adaptator : Scharfenberg, William

Added the 12 Dec 2014

Variation dansée "Pizzicati" from "Sylvia"
Delibes, Leo
Piano solo
3 PDF /
Adaptator : Delibes, Leo

Added the 12 Dec 2014

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