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Escudier, Léon

LC control no.n 97841847
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Personal name headingEscudier, Léon
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Variant(s)Escudier, Jacques Victor Jean Baptiste Louis Elisabeth Léon
See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Bureau de la France musicale (Paris, France)
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Founded corporate body of person: Bureau Central de Musique (Paris, France)
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Other standard no.0000000122379566
Birth date[1815-08-15..1815-09-15]
Death date1881-06-22
Place of birthCastelnaudary (France)
Place of deathParis (France)
AffiliationThéâtre-Italien (Paris, France)
Profession or occupationMusic publishers Journalists Musicologists Critics
Special noteFrench dance critic, fl. 1841.
Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Found in*MGZB Hamburger Ballett-Tage. [Souvenir program] 9th, 1983, p 66.
Dict. de biog. fran., 1970: v. 12, p. 1456 (Escudier, Léon; b. Castenaudary, France, Sept. 17, 1821) p. 1457 (d. June 22, 1881)
Grove music online, July 5, 2011 (under Escudier: Léon; b. Sept. 15, 1815, Castenaudary, d. June 22, 1881, Paris; with his brother Marie, founded the weekly journal La France musicale and the French music publishing firm Escudier; journalist, musicologist)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, via VIAF, viewed Apr. 21, 2022 (Escudier, Léon, 1815-1881; born 1815-08-15 [sic], Castelnaudary (Aude), died 1881-06-22, Paris (France); country: France; gender: male; language: French; journalist, music critic and music publisher, associated with his brother Marie until 1860; director of the Théâtre-Italien; complete first names: Jacques Victor Jean Baptiste Louis Elisabeth)
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Paris, France, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1792-1930, via Ancestry, viewed Apr. 21, 2022: death records (Jacques Victor Jean Baptiste Louis Elisabeth Léon Escudier; about 1816, Castelnaudary (Aude), died June 22, 1881 (aged 65), Paris 9th Arrondissement, France; male; father: Pierre Escudier, mother: Anna Bourelly, spouse: Leopoldine Laure Mequillet)
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) website, viewed Apr. 21, 2022 publisher's wiki (under Escudier: the brothers Escudier, Marie (1819 [sic]-1880) and Léon (1821-1881) founded Paris music publishers La France musicale in 1837, the Magasin de Musique, 1843, and the Bureau Central de la Musique (1843-1853), at which point Marie left the firm and Léon Escudier carried on (1853-1882))
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