Camille Chevillard

Camille Chevillard , born with Paris the October 14th 1859 and died in Chatou the May 30th 1923, is a Compositeur and Leader French.

Biography

Resulting from a musician family (her Alexandre father was a brilliant violonist), he learns the Piano and enters to the Conservatoire of Paris. Charles Lamoureux, director of the Concerts of the same name engages it in 1887 as chief of song. One year later, Chevillard marries the girl of Lamoureux and it is thus quite naturally that it succeeds to him in 1897 with the head of its symphonic association. It is with the head of this one that it creates in particular Pelléas and Mélisande (1901) of Gabriel Fauré, the Nocturnes (1901-1902) and especially the Sea (1905) of Claude Debussy like the Waltz (1920) of Maurice Ravel.

Instrumental overall professor with the Academy as from 1907, he becomes also musical director of the Opéra of Paris in 1914 (he creates there in 1923 the ballet Cydalise and the Goat-footed being of his friend Gabriel Pierné).

As leader, it privileged the music of the romantic German (Wagner, Liszt…) and Russian, not having that little regard for that of its French contemporaries (although in the facts, it directed from there much…).

Compositions

Its activity of type-setter is limited to parts of Chamber music, for symphonic piano and some works .

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