Édouard Lalo

Édouard Lalo Sheet Music

  • Born: 27th January 1823
  • Died: 22nd April 1892
  • Birthplace: Lille (Nord), France.

Edouard Lalo was a French composer. Lalo was born in Lille (Nord), in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck. For several years, he worked as a string player and teacher in Paris. In 1848, he joined with friends to found the Armingaud Quartet, playing viola and later second violin. Lalo's earliest surviving compositions are songs and chamber works (two early symphonies were destroyed).