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A French composer of chamber and orchestral music, opera, and ballet. Lalo is most famous for his Symphonie espagnole (1875), the brilliant and colorful prototype of French impressionism, which used Spain as its subject in such pieces as Chabrier's EspaƱa and Debussy's Iberia. But the real genius of Lalo lies both in his extraordinary, wholly original orchestration -- which ...more


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