Charles Lalo (24 February 1877,

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– 1 April 1953,

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) was a French writer on aesthetics.

Education and career

Lalo studied philosophy at the

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, gaining a doctorate in 1908. After being a schoolmaster, he succeeded

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in the chair of aesthetics at the

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, which he held from 1933 until his death.Bojan Bujić, ed., ''Music in European thought, 1851-1912'', Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 216

Works

* ''Esquisse d'une esthétique musicale scientifique'', 1908. * ''Les sentiments esthétiques'', 1909. * ''Introduction à l'esthétique; les méthodes de l'esthétique, beauté naturelle et beauté artistique, l'impressionnisme et le dogmatisme'', 1912. * ''L'art et la vie sociale'', 1921. * ''L'art et la morale'', 1922. * ''Notions d'esthétique'', 1925. * ''L'expression de la vie dans l'art'', 1933. * ''Éléments d'une esthétique musicale scientifique'', 1939. * ''L'art loin de la vie'', 1939. * ''Esthétique du rire'', 1949.

References

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