…. The challenge was to set the one-act libretto of Le docteur Miracle by Lon Battu and Ludovic Halvy. The prize was awarded jointly to Bizet and Charles Lecocq,[15] a compromise which years later Lecocq criticised on the grounds of the jury's manipulation by Fromental Halvy in favour of Bize...
Alexandre Charles Lecocq (June 3, 1832, Paris October 24, 1918, Paris) was a French musical composer. He was admitted into the Conservatoire in 1849, being already an accomplished ...