Léon Gastinel (15 August 1823 – 18 October 1906) was a French composer.

Career

He attended the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Fromental Halévy and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1846 for his cantata ''Valasquez''. While relatively unknown today, Gastinel wrote two complete masses, two symphonies and four oratorios, and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

including at least two string sextets.The second published in 1860 by Lemoine of Paris: se
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from the 9 June 1860 issue of the ''Bibliographie de la France''. He was most prolific, however, in his works for the stage, which include the ballet ''Le Rêve'' (1890, chor. Joseph Hansen, Paris Opera) and the operas ''Le Miroir'' (1853), ''L'Opéra aux fenêtres'' (1857) and ''Titus et Bérénice'' (1860).

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