Lefebvre, Charles Edouard
(1843–1917)> COMPOSER
Lefebvre, Charles Edouard (19 June 1843, Paris; 8 September 1917, Aix-les-Bains), composer, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, where he won the Prix de Rome in 1870. After the completion of his residence in Italy, he toured the Orient, and he returned to France to win the Prix Chartier in 1884. He joined the faculty at the Conservatoire in 1895. The musician’s interest in the theatre induced him to write two operas, Le Trésor produced at Angers in 1883, and Zaïre, given initially at Lille…