Casimir Gide

Casimir Gide (4 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a 19th-century French composer, bookseller as well as prints and maps editor.

Casimir Gide
Casimir Gide
Born4 July 1804
Died18 February 1868(1868-02-18) (aged 63)
OccupationComposer, bookseller, prints editor

Biography

The son of the Parisian bookseller Theophile Etienne Gide (1768–1837), to whom he would succeed, and of a singer in the chapel of the king, he studied harmony and musical composition at the Conservatoire de Paris. On 4 February 1833, he received the bookseller patent from the Maison Gide fils. He was a major printer of lithographs and financed the publication of six volumes, among them nineteen of the Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France by Charles Nodier and Justin Taylor.[1] In 1854, he was one of the first to launch the trend of salon operettas and artistic evenings.[2]

Works

He wrote incidental music, ballets and operas.

Shows

Piano music

  • Quadrille et valse (piano) for Le Diable boiteux
  • rondos-fantaisies on Ozaï
  • Trois quadrilles de contredanses suivis de deux valses et un galop on La Tentation (with Fromental Halévy)

Libretti

  • 1834: L'Angélus, opéra comique in 1 act (with Jean-Joseph Ader)
  • 1845: Fragment d'un répétiteur de ballet
  • Le Camélia, petite ronde pour piano sur une valse du ballet, Le Diable boiteux, Op. 102
  • Le Muguet, petit rondo pour piano sur un air de danse du ballet, Le Diable boiteux
  • La Tentation, opera in 5 acts, lyrics by Cavé, music by Halévy, ballets music by Gide

Lithographic prints

  • 1845: Château de Dompierre
  • 1845: Grande Salle de l'Hôtel de Ville de St Quentin
  • 1845: Intérieur de l'Église de Notre Dame de Nesle
  • 1857: Ancien Hôtel de Ville de Châlons-sur-Marne
  • 1857: Ancienne Église St Nicaise à Reims
  • 1857: Église d'Hermouville
  • 1857: Église St Laurent à Nogent sur Seine
  • 1857: Portail du Sud de l'Église de Mézières
  • 1857: Portail méridional de l'Église de Réthel
  • 1857: Vues d'une partie de l'Église de Bourgogne

Bibliography

References

  1. Jean-Michel Leniaud, Béatrice Bouvier, Le Livre d'architecture, XVe–XXe siècle (2002), p. 41.
  2. Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, p. 744.
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