Lionel Dauriac

{{Short description|French philosopher and musicologist}}

Lionel Dauriac (19 November 1847 – 26 May 1923) was a French philosopher and musicologist.

Dauriac was born in Brest, the son of an admiral.Danielle Buschinger et al, Richard Wagner: Points de départ et aboutissements Anfangs- und Endpunkte, 2002 He was a professor of musical aesthetics at the Sorbonne between 1896 and 1903.Manuel Couvreur in John Hajdu Heyer, ed., Lully studies, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p.275 He died on 26 May 1923 in Paris.Revue de métaphysique et de morale, Volume 30 (1923), p.653 An internationally minded music critic, he wrote biographies of Gioachino Rossini, Richard Wagner and Giacomo Meyerbeer.

Works

  • 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.

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