Minkus, Léon
(1827–1890)> COMPOSER
Minkus, Léon (1827, Vienna; St. Petersburg, 1890), composer, whose last name is also spelled Minkous in France, left his native Austria in 1853 to conduct Prince Yusoupoff ’s private orchestra in Russia. A decade later, in 1864, he became ballet composer for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and, in 1871, he moved on to the Marynsky Theatre in the same capacity. He did his major works at this latter theatre between 1875 and 1886. Minkus was discovered by the French public as early as 1846, when…