Biography
Charles Lecocq (in full Alexandre Charles Lecocq) was born in Paris in 1832 and, despite a lifelong physical disability, studied harmony with Bazin, composition with Halévy and organ with Benoist at the Paris Conservatoire from 1849, where he met fellow student Georges Bizet. In 1856 he shared a Jacques Offenbach-sponsored operetta competition prize with Bizet for "Le docteur miracle" and went on to establish himself in the genre with works such as "Fleur-de-Thé" (1868). With "La fille de Madame Angot" (1873) and "Giroflé-Girofla" (1874) he created two operetta classics that remain in the repertoire today. Lecocq composed more than fifty operettas and numerous songs in total; he died in Paris in 1918.
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