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Casimir Gide

1804 – 1868

French choreographer, composer and editor

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Lived 1804 – 1868 (aged 63). Casimir Gide was a French choreographer, composer, editor, bookseller and musicographer.

Casimir Gide (4 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a 19th-century French composer, bookseller as well as prints and maps editor.

Biography The son of the Parisian bookseller Theophile Etienne Gide (1768–1837), to whom he would succeed, and of a singer in the chapel of the king, he studied harmony and musical composition at the Conservatoire de Paris. On 4 February 1833, he received the bookseller patent from the Maison Gide fils. He was a major printer of lithographs and financed the publication of six volumes, among them nineteen of the Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France by Charles Nodier and Justin Taylor. In 1854, he was one of the first to launch the trend of salon operettas and artistic evenings.

Works He wrote incidental music, ballets and operas.

Shows 1828: Les Trois Marie, vaudeville by Louis Duport, chant and accompagnement 1829: La Cachucha 1830: La Chatte blanche 1830: Les Trois Catherine, with Adolphe Adam 1830: Le Roi de Sicile, opéra comique in 1 act, with Frédéric Soulié 1831: Les Jumeaux de la Réole 1832: La tentation 1835: L'île des pirates, ballet-pantomime in 4 acts 1836: Le Diable boiteux, ballet pantomime in 3 acts, with Edmond Burat de Gurgy and Fanny Elssler 1838: La Volière ou les Oiseaux de Boccace 1839: La Tarentule, ballet-pantomime 1847: Ozaï, ballet-pantomime in 2 acts, with Jean Coralli Pas redoublé pour harmonie militaire Romance (with Horace Gide) 1858: Belphegor

Songs 4 mélodies including 'L'Amour' on words by Louise Bertin, published by Richault <ref: Journal de musique" (3 juin 1876-26 mai 1877) downloadable from Gallica>

Piano music Quadrille et valse (piano) for Le Diable boiteux rondos-fantaisies on Ozaï Trois quadrilles de contredanses suivis de deux valses et un galop on La Tentation (with Fromental Halévy)

Libretti 1834: L'Angélus, opéra comique in 1 act (with Jean-Joseph Ader) 1845: Fragment d'un répétiteur de ballet Le Camélia, petite ronde pour piano sur une valse du ballet, Le Diable boiteux, Op. 102 Le Muguet, petit rondo pour piano sur un air de danse du ballet, Le Diable boiteux La Tentation, opera in 5 acts, lyrics by Cavé, music by Halévy, ballets music by Gide

Lithographic prints 1845: Château de Dompierre 1845: Grande Salle de l'Hôtel de Ville de St Quentin 1845: Intérieur de l'Église de Notre Dame de Nesle 1857: Ancien Hôtel de Ville de Châlons-sur-Marne 1857: Ancienne Église St Nicaise à Reims 1857: Église d'Hermouville 1857: Église St Laurent à Nogent sur Seine 1857: Portail du Sud de l'Église de Mézières 1857: Portail méridional de l'Église de Réthel 1857: Vues d'une partie de l'Église de Bourgogne

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French choreographer, composer and editor (1804-1868)

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Casimir Gide was born on 4 July 1804 in Paris.

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Casimir Gide died on 18 February 1868 in Paris.

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Casimir Gide was a choreographer, composer, editor, bookseller and musicographer.

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· Wikipedia: Casimir Gide

· Wikidata: Q11912942

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