Lionel Dauriac

Lionel Dauriac (19 November 1847 – 26 May 1923) was a French philosopher and musicologist.

Dauriac was born in Brest, the son of an admiral. He was a professor of musical aesthetics at the Sorbonne between 1896 and 1903. He died on 26 May 1923 in Paris. An internationally minded music critic, he wrote biographies of Gioachino Rossini, Richard Wagner and Giacomo Meyerbeer.

Works

 * Des notions de matière et de force dans les sciences de la nature, 1878.
 * Croyance et realité, 1889.
 * Rossini: biographie critique, 1902.
 * Essai sur l'esprit musical, 1904.
 * Meyerbeer, 1913.
 * Contingence et rationalisme; pages d'histoire et de doctrine, 1924.