Jacques Victor Léon Escudier (17 September 1821 – 22 June 1881) was a prominent French journalist, music critic and music publisher.
Career
Escudier was born in
Castelnaudary
Castelnaudary (; oc, Castèlnòu d'Arri) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located in the former province of the Lauragais and famous for cassoulet of which it claims to be the world capital ...
. In 1837, together with
Marie Escudier, his brother, and
Jules Maurel he founded the weekly ''
La France musicale'' as well as a music publishing company. In December 1860, he founded the journal ''
L'Art musical''. From 1850 to 1858, he worked for ''Le Pays'' and ''
Journal de l'Empire
A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to:
*Bullet journal, a method of personal organization
*Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period
*Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...
''. Escudier was the French publisher of
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...
's works. All Verdi's works were apparently included in the Escudier catalogue. The Escudier brothers helped to establish Verdi's reputation across Europe as the leading composer of Italian opera. From 1876 to 1878, Léon Escudier directed the Ventadour Room at the
Théâtre italien de Paris where he staged Verdi's operas.
He wrote, in collaboration with his brother, ''Études biographiques sur les chanteurs contemporains'' (1840), ''Dictionnaire de musique'' (1844), ''Vie et aventures des cantatrices célèbres'' (1856), and his autobiography, ''Mes souvenirs'' (1870).
After he died in Paris, his catalogue came up for auction and was bought by a range of French music publishers including
E. & A. Girod, Louis Gregh,
Léon Grus,
Georges Hartmann
Romain-Jean-François "Georges" Hartmann (15 May 1843 – 22 April 1900) was a French music publisher, dramatist and opera librettist (publishing under the pen name Henri Grémont).
Born in Paris, he was the son of Jean Hartmann (1804–1880), a G ...
,
Henri Heugel, Auguste Le Bailly,
Alphonse Leduc,
Henry Lemoine
Henry Lemoine (21 October 1786 – 18 May 1854) was a French music publisher, composer, and piano teacher.
Life
Lemoine was born in Paris, where he was a pupil of Anton Reicha, a composer and piano teacher.
In 1816 he took over his father An ...
, and
Auguste O'Kelly
Auguste O'Kelly (13 July 1829 – 16 February 1900) was a Franco-Irish music publisher in Paris between 1872 and 1888.
Life
Auguste O'Kelly was born as Louis Auguste Kelly in Boulogne-sur-Mer as the second son of the Dublin-born piano teacher Jose ...
.
[Anik Devriès & François Lesure, ''Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français'', vol. 2: ''De 1820 à 1914'' (Geneva: Minkoff, 1988); Axel Klein, ''O'Kelly. An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France'' (Norderstedt: BoD, 2014), p. 221, 459–467.]
References
External links
* Works published b
Escudieron
IMSLP
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public-domain music scores. The project, which uses MediaWiki software ...
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1821 births
1881 deaths
19th-century French businesspeople
19th-century French journalists
19th-century French male writers
French male journalists
French male writers
French music critics
French music publishers (people)
French writers about music
People from Castelnaudary