Camille Bellaigue

Camille Bellaigue (24 May 1858 – 4 October 1930) was a French music critic and musicographer born in Paris. After Arthur Pougin, he was one of the first French biographers of Giuseppe Verdi, dedicating the book to Arrigo Boito.

Biography

Grandson of Claude Bellaigue and René Piéron, and son of Antonin Bellaigue, Camille Bellaigue was born on May 24, 1858 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.

A student of Antoine François Marmontel, he obtained a first prize in piano at the Paris Conservatoire in 1878. Collaborator of the Correspondant, he joined the Revue des deux Mondes in 1885. Camille Bellaigue was carried by his moral idea of melody (Charles Gounod) and his opposition to the new style of the time (César Franck or Claude Debussy).

The French Academy awarded him the Vitet prize in 1894 for Psychologie musicale.

Maurrassian and papal chamberlain to Pius X, married to the niece of Herman Hoskier, he was the father of Marie-Élisabeth Bellaigue (wife of Jacques Vendroux and close friend of Yvonne de Gaulle), and of Jean Camille Bellaigue.

He died in Paris on October 4, 1930.

Works

• Georges Bizet: Sa Vie et Ses Œuvres (1890)
• Psychologie Musicale (1893)
• Portraits et Silhouettes de Musiciens (1896)
• Études Musicales et Nouvelles Silhouettes de Musiciens (1898)
• Impressions Musicales et Littéraires (1900)
• Études Musicales (Seconde série) (1903)
• Mendelssohn (1907)
• Mozart (1907)
• Études Musicales (Troisième série) (1907)
• Les Époques de la Musique (1909; 2 volumes)
• Gounod (1910)
• Notes Brèves (1911)
• Verdi (1912)
• Notes Brèves (Deuxième série) (1914)
• Pie X et Rome. Notes et Souvenirs, 1903-1914 (1916)
• Propos de Musique et de Guerre (1917)
• Echos de France et d'Italie (1919)
• Souvenirs de Musique et de Musiciens (1921)

Translated into English

• Portraits and Silhouettes of Musicians (1897)
• Musical Studies and Silhouettes (1900)

External links

• Works by Camille Bellaigue at JSTOR
• Works by Camille Bellaigue at Gallica
• Works by Camille Bellaigue at Hathi Trust