Lionel Dauriac (19 November 1847 – 26 May 1923) was a French philosopher and musicologist.
Dauriac was born in Brest, the son of an admiral.[1] He was a professor of musical aesthetics at the Sorbonne between 1896 and 1903.[2] He died on 26 May 1923 in Paris.[3] An internationally minded music critic, he wrote biographies of Gioachino Rossini, Richard Wagner and Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Works
edit- Des notions de matière et de force dans les sciences de la nature, 1878.
- Croyance et realité, 1889.
- Rossini: biographie critique, 1902.
- Essai sur l'esprit musical, 1904.
- Meyerbeer, 1913.
- Contingence et rationalisme; pages d'histoire et de doctrine, 1924.
References
edit- ^ Danielle Buschinger et al, Richard Wagner: Points de départ et aboutissements Anfangs- und Endpunkte, 2002
- ^ Manuel Couvreur in John Hajdu Heyer, ed., Lully studies, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p.275
- ^ Revue de métaphysique et de morale, Volume 30 (1923), p.653