René Dumesnil

René Dumesnil (19 June 1879 – 24 December 1967) was a French physician, literary critic and musicologist.

René Dumesnil
René Dumesnil, in 1921
Born
René, Alphonse, Adolphe Dumesnil

19 June 1879
Rouen
Died24 December 1967(1967-12-24) (aged 88)
Paris
OccupationMusicologist
literary critic

Dumesnil studied literature at the Sorbonne and became a literary critic. Then he was music critic for Le Mercure de France and Le Monde.

He was elected a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1965. In addition to his publications in literature (numerous studies on Flaubert, Maupassant and realism, he has written a number of books on music. Dumesnil won four prizes awarded by the Académie française.

Publications

His writings were published in Paris (unless otherwise stated).

Critics and literary history

  • 1912: Autour de Flaubert, (in collaboration with René Descharmes)
  • 1928: En marge de Flaubert
  • 1928: La publication de Madame Bovary
  • 1931: La publication d'En Route, by J.-K. Huysmans
  • 1932: Gustave Flaubert, l'homme et l'œuvre
  • 1933: La publication des Soirées de Médan
  • 1936: L'Éducation Sentimentale de Gustave Flaubert
  • 1939: Bibliographie de Gustave Flaubert, (in collaboration with D.-L. Demorest)
  • 1945: La Vie littéraire et l'Époque réaliste et naturaliste
  • 1945: Le grand amour de Flaubert
  • 1947: Guy de Maupassant, l'homme et l'œuvre
  • 1955: Le Réalisme et le Naturalisme

Musical critic

  • 1921: Le Rythme musical; 2nd ed. augmented, 1949
  • 1924: Le Monde des musiciens
  • 1927: Le Don Juan de Mozart ; 2nd ed. augmented, 1955
  • 1928: Musiciens romantiques
  • 1929: Richard Wagner
  • 1930: La Musique contemporaine en France ; 2nd ed. augmented 1949
  • 1931: Le Livre du disque — with P. Hemarinquer
  • 1934: Histoire illustrée de la musique
  • 1936: Portraits de musiciens français
  • 1945: La Musique romantique en France
  • 1946: La Musique en France entre les deux guerres — Geneva
  • 1949: L'Envers de la musique
  • 1953: Histoire illustrée du théâtre lyrique ; Grand prix de la littérature musicale
  • 1954: Richard Wagner, a more important work than the one published in 1929
  • 1964: L'Opéra
  • 1965: Mozart présent dans ses œuvres lyriques — Brussels
  • Histoire de la musique des origines à nos jours — with Jules Combarieu — 5 volumes, Armand Colin

Essays, history

  • 1929: Supplément aux Ridicules du Temps, de Barbey d'Aurevilly
  • 1935: La Seine normande
  • 1936: Histoire illustrée de la Médecine
  • 1938: L'Âme du Médecin

Novels and tales

  • 1919: L'Absence
  • 1924: Quatre histoires couleur des saisons

Bibliography

  • Dictionnaire bibliographique des musiciensÉditions Robert Laffont
  • G. Van der Kemp: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de René Dumesnil (1970)
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