Lionel Dauriac

Lionel Dauriac (1847–1923) was a French philosopher and musicologist.

Dauriac was born in Brest, the son of an admiral.^[1] He was professor of musical aesthetics at the Sorbonne between 1896 and 1903.^[2] He died 26 May 1923.^[3] 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.

References

1. Danielle Buschinger et al, Richard Wagner: Points de départ et aboutissements Anfangs- und Endpunkte, 2002
2. Manuel Couvreur in John Hajdu Heyer, ed., Lully studies, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p.275
3. Revue de métaphysique et de morale, Volume 30 (1923), p.653