Léon Vallas
Léon Vallas (17 May 1879 in
Biography
Orphaned at 8 years of age, after studying at the St. Mary's Institution at St. Chamond, held by the Marists, he passed his baccalaureate and studied medicine in Lyon, which he dropped out. In 1908, he defended a thesis of musicology on La Musique à l'Académie de Lyon au XVIIIe ("Music at the Academy of Lyon in the 17th Century").
A collaborator of
A physician during the war, he received his doctorate in 1919 on Un Siècle de musique et de théâtre à Lyon (1688–1789) ("A Century of Music and Theatre in Lyon (1688–1789)") and returned to Le Progrès in Lyon where he was a music critic for 35 years.
In 1925, he founded the "Conférences de musique vivante" in Paris and taught courses at the
He was elected president of the Société française de musicologie in 1937, until 1943
He married pianist and singer Paule de Lestang[4] in 1936, and then resided until his death at 286 rue Vendôme, in Lyon.
His biographies of Franck, Debussy and D'Indy constitute the essence of his work as a historian.[3]
Publications
- La Musique à l'Académie de Lyon au dix-huitième siècle (Lyon: Éditions de la Revue musicale de Lyon, 1908) (Read online)
- Le Théâtre et la Ville: 1694–1712[5] (Lyon: Cumin et Masson, 1919)
- Debussy (1862–1918) (Paris: Plon, 1926)
- Un Siècle de musique et de théâtre à Lyon (1688–1789)[6] (Lyon: Masson, 1932)
- Les Idées de Claude Debussy, musicien français[7] (Paris: Éditions musicales de la Librairie de France, 1927; translated into English by Maire O'Brien, Oxford: University Press, 1929)
- Claude Debussy et son tempsAlbin Michel, 1958; translated into German, Munich: Nymphenburger Verlags-Handlung, 1961)
- Achille-Claude Debussy (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1944) (rééd. 1949)
- Vincent d'Indy (Paris: Albin Michel, 2 vols. (1. La Jeunesse, 1851–1886, 1946; 2. La Maturité, la vieillesse, 1886–1931, 1949)
- La Véritable histoire de César Franck (Paris: Flammarion, 1955)[9]
References
- ^ Dufourcq 1956, p. 101.
- ^ .
- ^ OCLC 896013420. Vignal 2005.
- ^ Paule de Lestang, chanteuse, pianiste et claveciniste : une musicienne aux multiples talents on Symétrie
- ^ Le Théâtre et la Ville : 1694-1712 on Jestor
- ^ Un siècle de musique et de théâtre à Lyon (1688-1789) on WorldCat
- ^ Les idées de Claude Debussy, musicien français on WorldCat
- ^ Vallas, Léon (1958). "Claude Debussy et son temps".
- ^ La Véritable Histoire de César Franck on World Cat
Bibliography
- Philippe Lebreton and Jean-Frédéric Schmitt, "Léon Vallas" in Centenaire de l’orchestre de Lyon 1905-2005 BnF 40089578m
- JSTOR 928000.
External links
- Fonds Léon Vallas of the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
- Biographie (2014) on sbla-lyon.fr
- Léon Vallas on IdRef
- Léon Vallas on Prosopo