Casimir Gide

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

Casimir Gide (4 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a 19th-century French composer, bookseller as well as prints and maps 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. In 1854, he was one of the first to launch the trend of salon operettas and artistic evenings.

Works

He wrote incidental music, ballets and operas.

Shows

Piano music

Libretti

Lithographic prints

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.