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Léo Delibes
Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French composer born February 21, 1836, in
Saint-Germain-du-Val, France. Admitted to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848,
Delibes studied under Adolphe Adam and others, working as an organist and
accompanist while composing comic operettas. He achieved success with the ballet
La Source (1866), followed by Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876). His stage
compositions include Jean de Nivelle (1880), the opera Lakmé (1883)—which
features the duet “Flower Duet”—and the unfinished Kassya. Delibes became a
professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire ...
