Lionel de La Laurencie

Lionel de La Laurencie (24 July 1861 – 21 November 1933) was a French musicologist.

Lionel de La Laurencie
Born24 July 1861
Nantes, France
Died27 April 1930(1930-04-27) (aged 68)
Paris, France
OccupationMusicologist

Biography

Graduated major of the French National School of Forestry, de La Laurencie devoted himself to music from 1898.

He studied at the University of Grenoble then in Nancy. A skilful violinist, he deepened his musical knowledge with Léon Reynier, master of violin, and enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a student of Bourgault-Ducoudray in the classes of harmony and history of music of the latter.

He taught history of music at the école des hautes études en sciences sociales and wrote for the most notable French musical magazines.

He led the journal Société française de musicologie and participated to the Encyclopédie de musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire[1] under the direction of Albert Lavignac.

de La Laurencie was Alain de Sédouy's grandfather on the maternal side.

Selected publications
  • 1888: La légende de Parsifal et le drame musical de Richard Wagner.[2]
  • 1890: España,Read on Gallica
  • 1906: L'Académie de musique et le concert de Nantes.[2]
  • 1908: Rameau.[2]
  • 1911: Lully.[2]
  • 1912: Deux imitateurs des bouffons.[2]
  • 1920: Les Créateurs de l'opéra français.[2]
  • 1934: Orphée de Gluck.[3]
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References
  1. "Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du conservatoire.. 1,1, Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du conservatoire. première partie, Histoire de la musique. [1], Antiquité, Moyen-Age / Albert Lavignac,... Lionel de La Laurencie,... | Gallica". gallica.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  2. Dizionario di musica, A. Della Corte et G. M. Gatti, Paravia, 1956, p.179
  3. de La Laurencie, L. (1934). Orphée de Gluck: étude et analyse. Mellottée. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
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