What is Edouard Lalo?
[[Image:Édouard Lalo2.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Édouard Lalo]] '''Edouard Lalo''' (born [[Lille]], 27 January 1823; died [[Paris]], 22 April 1892) was a [[France|French]] composer. ==His life== His family originally came from [[Spain]]. Edouard learned to play the [[piano]] and [[violin]] at the Lille Conservatory, but his parents did not want him to take music as a [[profession]]. So he left home when he was 16 and went to [[Paris]]. He took some lessons and earned money by teaching and playing the violin. He liked [[chamber music]]. Not many people in France were interested in chamber music at that time. With three friends he formed a [[string quartet]] and they helped to make the string quartets of [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] and [[Beethoven]] better known in France. He played the [[viola]] in his quartet, and later he played [[second violin]]. In 1859, he composed a string quartet. It was not until the 1870s, when he was already in his 50s, that he started to become really well known. Some famous [[conducting|conductors]] such as [[Pasdeloup]], [[Lamoureux]] and [[Colonne]] and the violinist [[Sarasate]] took an interest in his [[orchestra]]l works and performed them. He wrote a violin [[concerto]] and a work called ''Symphonie espagnole'' (''Spanish Symphony'') which was also for solo violin and orchestra. Sarasate played both these works. He wrote a [[cello]] concerto in 1877. He wrote an opera ''Le roi d’Ys'', but no opera house wanted to perform it. They asked him to write a [[ballet]] instead. He did not know anything about ballet, but he composed one called ''Namouna''. It had some good music, although people who did not like him said it sounded like [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]] or like the music of someone who is used to writing [[symphony|symphonies]]. In 1888, his opera ''Le roi d’Ys'' was performed at last. It was an enormous success, but Lalo only had four more years to live, and he did not compose anything more of importance. He had married one of hi