Camille Chevillard
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France
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composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
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He was born in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. He led the Lamoureux Orchestra
Lamoureux Orchestra
The Orchestre Lamoureux officially known as the Société des Nouveaux-Concerts and also known as the Concerts Lamoureux) is an orchestral concert society which once gave weekly concerts by its own orchestra, founded in Paris by Charles Lamoureux in 1881...
in the premieres of Debussy's Nocturnes (1900 and 1901) and La mer
La Mer (Debussy)
La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre , or simply La mer , is an orchestral composition by the French composer Claude Debussy. It was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 on the English Channel coast in Eastbourne...
(1905). He was the son-in-law of conductor Charles Lamoureux
Charles Lamoureux
Charles Lamoureux was a French conductor and violinist.He was born in Bordeaux, where his father owned a café. He studied the violin with Narcisse Girard at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1854. He was subsequently engaged as a violinist at the Opéra and later joined the Société...
. He died in Chatou
Chatou
Chatou is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center...
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His pupils included Suzanne Chaigneau
Suzanne Chaigneau
Suzanne Chaigneau, born Chailly-en-Bière, 14 June 1875, died Paris 13 April 1946, was a French violinist and chamber musician....
, Clotilde Coulombe
Clotilde Coulombe
Clotilde Coulombe was a Canadian pianist and Roman Catholic nun. She was the sister-in-law of musician Omer Létourneau.-Life and career:...
, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté was a Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist.Born in Moscow as Sofia Fridman-Kochevskaya, Eckhardt-Gramatté studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where her teachers included Alfred Brun and Guillaume Rémy for violin, S. Chenée for...
, Yvonne Hubert, and Robert Soetens
Robert Soetens
Robert Soetens was a French violinist, remembered particularly for premiering the Violin Concerto No. 2 of Sergei Prokofiev in 1935.-Biography:...
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Selected works
Stage- La Rousalka, Incidental Music for the play by Édouard SchuréÉdouard SchuréEduard Schuré was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.- Biography :...
(1903)
Orchestral
- Ballade symphonique, Op.6 (1889)
- Le chène et le roseau (The Oak and the Reed), Symphonic Poem after the fable by Jean de La FontaineJean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional...
, Op.7 (published 1900) - Fantaisie symphonique, Op.10
Chamber music
- Piano Quintet in E minor, Op.1 (1882)
- Piano Trio, Op.3 (1884)
- Quatre pièces (4 Pieces) for viola (or violin) and piano, Op.4 (1887)
- Sonata for violin and piano, Op.8 (published 1894)
- Quatre petites pièces (4 Little Pieces) for cello and piano, Op.11 (1893)
- Sonata in B major for cello and piano, Op.15 (1896)
- String Quartet in D major, Op.16 (published 1902)
- Allegro for horn and piano, Op.18
- Introduction et marche for viola and piano, Op.22 (published 1905)
Piano
- Thème et variations, Op.5
- Impromptu in D major, Op.14
- Zacharie (d'apres Michel-Ange), Op.19
- Étude chromatique
Vocal
- Attente for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, Op.12