Marc Delmas

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Marc Delmas (born March 28, 1885 in Saint-Quentin , † November 30, 1931 in Paris ) was a French composer.

Delmas studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Xavier Leroux and Paul Vidal . With the cantata Le Poète et la Fée he won the Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1919 . He was best known as a composer of stage works (including the opera Laïs , 1908 and the operetta Sylvette , 1932), but also composed chamber music works, a balade féerique for choir and piano and a rapsodie Lusacienne for violin and orchestra (1928). Delmas took an interested part in the choir movement and participated in the Conseil Supérieur de la Musique Populaire .

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