Camille Chevillard (1859-1923). Collection of the Library of Congress.

Paul Alexandre Camille Chevillard (14 October 1859 – 30 May 1923) was a French composer and conductor.[1]

Biography

He was born in Paris. He conducted the Orchestre Lamoureux in the premieres of Claude Debussy's Nocturnes (1900 and 1901) and La mer (1905), and promoted the music of Albéric Magnard.[2] He was the son-in-law of the conductor Charles Lamoureux: in 1888 he married Lamoureux's daughter Marguerite.[3] He died in Chatou.

His pupils included Suzanne Chaigneau, Clotilde Coulombe, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Yvonne Hubert, Eugeniusz Morawski, and Robert Soetens.

Selected works

Stage
Orchestral
Chamber music
Piano
Vocal

References

  1. ^ "Musicsack". Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  2. ^ a concert he gave with Magnard's 3rd symphony, 6 November 1904, was the first time the Orchestre Lamoureux had performed the work (http://www.orchestrelamoureux.com/page_5-lorchestre-lamoureux.html Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine ) and one of the last times the symphony was performed in Magnard's lifetime (comment by Adrian Corleonis, http://www.allmusic.com/composition/sonata-for-cello-piano-in-a-major-op-20-mc0002364868 .)
  3. ^ French Wikipedia article on Lamoureux. Marguerite is sometimes credited as Madame Camille Chevillard as translator into French of German song texts, e.g. Felix Weingartner's 3 Gedichte Op.17 published in 1894.
  4. ^ OCLC 495848509 and many other listings that concur.

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Cultural offices Preceded byCharles Lamoureux Principal Conductors, Lamoureux Orchestra 1897–1923 Succeeded byPaul Paray


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