Paul Landormy

Paul Charles-René Landormy (3 January 1869 in Issy-les-Moulineaux – 17 November 1943 in Paris) was a French musicologist and music critic.

Biography Paul Landormy was a fellow student of philosopher Émile Chartier at Lycée Michelet (Vanves) and École Normale Supérieure of Paris.

An agrégé of philosophy, he learned singing with Giovanni Sbriglia (Italian tenor) and Pol Plançon (French bass).

He organized, with Romain Rolland, a series of lectures on the history of music at the École des hautes études sociales (1902) where he created a laboratory of acoustics that he directed during three years (1904–1907).

In addition, he became music critic for La Victoire, Le Figaro, wrote articles for Le Temps and several magazines.

Publications 1910: Histoire de la musique, on Gallica 1920: Brahms, revised edition 1948), 1928: La Vie de Schubert 1929: Bizet étude thématique sur le Faust de Gounod 1938: Albert Roussel 1941: Gluck 1942: Gounod 1943–1944: La musique française (3 volumes; de la Marseillaise à la mort de Berlioz, de Franck à Debussy, après Debussy.