Romanticism · France
1836–1891
Saint-Germain-du-Val - Paris
Review
Alumno de Adolphe Adam at the Paris Conservatory, began as a pianist with the Théâtre-Lyrique and, since 1863, the Paris Opera, while writing light operas. The ballet The Source (1866), half-composed with Minkus, opened the doors of the dance.
With Coppelia and Sylviawhich Chaikovski admired, gave the ballet a symphonic orchestra full of color and melody, and its opera Lakméwith the famous «Duo of the flowers»It's his masterpiece. He was a professor of composition of the Conservatory since 1881 and a member of the Institute of France since 1884. He died in Paris in 1891.
