Word: lalo
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Born into an impoverished, nonmusical family Debussy had virtually no formal schooling as a child. Unpopular with the more hidebound instructors at the conservatory, he still managed to win the coveted Grand Prix de Rome by tossing off a composition (L'Enfant Prodigue) in deliberate imitation of Lalo and Delibes, the popular French composers of the day. Debussy was no admirer of either man, or of any other French contemporary. To him Berlioz was "a tremendous humbug, Charpentier was "downright vulgar," Massenet a panderer of "stupid ideas and amateur standards...
...Lalo: Piano Concerto (Orazio Frugoni, pianist; Vox, mono). French Composer Edouard Lalo (1823-92) is remembered chiefly for his Symphonic Espagnole, but he also wrote a number of operas, chamber works and concertos, of which this is one of the most engaging. Urbane, exotically colored, it sparkles in this recording with the prismatic fascination of a many-tiered chandelier...