Casimir Gide


Casimir Gide was a 19th-century French composer, bookseller as well as prints and maps editor.

Biography

The son of the Parisian bookseller Theophile Etienne Gide, 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