Charles Lecocq, French pianist and composer (died 1918)

Charles Lecocq

French composer (1832–1918)

Alexandre Charles Lecocq was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed considerable success in the 1870s and early 1880s, before the changing musical fashions of the…