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Updated: May 14, 2025
Loomis has an especial aptitude for writing artistic ballet-music, and for composing in the tone of different nationalities, particularly the Spanish. His pantomimes contain many irresistible dances, one of them including a Chinese dance alternating 4-4 with 3-4 time. His strikingly fleet "Harlequin" has been published. The gift of adding art to catchiness is a great one.
The Frenchman Hérold, son of a good musician, made ballet-music artistic while he paced the dance of death with consumption, and died in his forty-second year, a month after his masterpiece, "Le Pré aux Clercs," had been produced and had wrung from him the wail: "I am going too soon; I was just beginning to understand the stage."
Although by no means upon the same level as 'Hulda, 'Ghiselle' also contains much fine music, and will doubtless be heard of again. He shone principally in ballet-music, but 'Lakmé' , his best-known opera, is a work of much charm and tenderness. It tells the story of a Hindoo damsel who loves an English officer.
His first great triumph was in ballet-music, which has ever since been his specialty. His first ballet, "La Source," was produced at the Opera, Nov. 12, 1865, and delighted all Paris.
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