Camille Chevillard
Paul Alexandre Camille Chevillard (14 October 1859 – 30 May 1923) was a French composer and conductor.[1]
Biography[edit]
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[edit]
- Stage
- La Rousalka, Incidental Music for the play by Édouard Schuré (1903)
- Orchestral
- Ballade symphonique, Op. 6 (1889)
- Le chène et le roseau (The Oak and the Reed), Symphonic Poem after the fable by Jean de La Fontaine, Op. 7 (published 1900)
- Fantaisie symphonique, Op. 10
- Chamber music
- Piano Quintet in E♭ minor, Op. 1 (1882)
- Piano Trio, Op. 3 (1884)[4]
- Quatre pièces (4 Pieces) for viola (or violin) and piano, Op. 4 (1887)
- Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 8 (published 1894)
- Quatre petites pièces (4 Little Pieces) for cello and piano, Op. 11 (1893)
- Sonata in B♭ major for cello and piano, Op. 15 (1896)
- String Quartet in D♭ major, Op. 16 (1897–98)
- Allegro for horn and piano, Op. 18
- Introduction et marche for viola and piano, Op. 22 (published 1905)
- Piano
- Thème et variations, Op. 5
- Impromptu in D♭ major, Op. 14
- Zacharie (d'apres Michel-Ange), Op. 19
- Étude chromatique
- Vocal
- Attente for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, Op. 12
References[edit]
- ^ "Musicsack". Retrieved January 27, 2014.
- ^ 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 .)
- ^ 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.
- ^ OCLC 495848509 and many other listings that concur.
External links[edit]
- Biographical details
- Free scores by Camille Chevillard at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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