Charles Lamoureux

Charles Lamoureux ( born September 28, 1834 in Bordeaux, † December 21, 1899 in Paris) was a French conductor and violinist.

The son of a café owner went to Paris, where he studied at the Paris Conservatory with Narcisse Girard violin, harmony, counterpoint and composition with Auguste Tolbecque, Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne and Alexis Chauvet and 1853-1855 two first and won a second prize. Already at this time he worked with as a musician in the orchestra of the Opéra de Paris; In 1858 he founded a string quartet, which also Édouard Colonne was a member, and in 1860 he was one of the initiators of the Séances Populaires de Musique de Chambre. In addition, he joined the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. In 1872 he founded a string quartet, which also included Tolbecque.

When traveling through England and Germany, he met the great oratorios of Bach and Handel know. To make this known in Paris, he founded in 1873 the Société de l'Harmonie Sacrée, with the he performed Handel's Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Bach's St. John Passion, but also Gallia by Charles Gounod and Ève by Jules Massenet.

From 1881 to 1897 he led the Concerts Lamoureux became known as and still active Société des Nouveaux -Concerts with which he merits acquired by the dissemination of the works of Richard Wagner, among other things, he headed here in 1887, the Paris premiere of Lohengrin, as it may do Wagner had personally authorized during a visit to Bayreuth. He was succeeded by his son Camille Chevillard. 1899, shortly before his death, he conducted nor the performance of Tristan und Isolde in Paris.

• Conductor
• Frenchman
• Born in 1834
• Died in 1899
• Man