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Léo Delibes

1836 - 1891

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Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (French: [klemɑ̃ filibɛʁ leo dəlib]; 21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas. His works include the ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876) and the opera Lakmé (1883), which includes the well-known "Flower Duet". Born into a musical family, Delibes enrolled at France's foremost music academy, the Conservatoire de Paris, when he was twelve, studying under several professors including Adolphe Adam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léo Delibes has received more than 556,529 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Léo Delibes is the 98th most popular composer (down from 93rd in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from France (down from 361st in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Composer.

Léo Delibes is most famous for his opera, Lakmé.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Léo Delibes ranks 98 out of 1,451. Before him are Guillaume Du Fay, Alma Mahler, César Franck, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Ruggero Leoncavallo. After him are John Cage, Arvo Pärt, Jacopo Peri, Francis Poulenc, Zoltán Kodály, and Adolphe Adam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Léo Delibes ranks 4. Before him are Ramakrishna, Wilhelm Steinitz, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. After him are Sophia of Nassau, Ferdinand Cheval, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sakamoto Ryōma, Marie Henriette of Austria, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Among people deceased in 1891, Léo Delibes ranks 11. Before him are Herman Melville, Pedro II of Brazil, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, and P. T. Barnum. After him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Theo van Gogh, Leopold Kronecker, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Albert Pike, and Ivan Goncharov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léo Delibes ranks 386 out of 6,770. Before him are John Vianney (1786), Hans Bethe (1906), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), and Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870). After him are Louis IV of France (920), Fernandel (1903), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Jules Rimet (1873), and Ernest Renan (1823).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Léo Delibes ranks 16. Before him are Charles Gounod (1818), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Josquin des Prez (1450), François Couperin (1668), Olivier Messiaen (1908), and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645). After him are Francis Poulenc (1899), Adolphe Adam (1803), Arthur Honegger (1892), Daniel Auber (1782), Maurice Jarre (1924), and Pérotin (1160).

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