Neal McCoy - Mountain Of Love

ESCUDIER (Escudier) - French. museswriters and journalists, brothers: Marie E. (29 VI 1809, Castelnodari - 18 IV 1880, Paris), Leon E. (17 IX 1816, Castelnodari - 22 VI 1881, Paris). The young men arrived in Paris, launched energetic journalistic activities. In 1837, gas was founded. "La France musicale", organized by muses. publishing house G. Verdi (Leon E. translated into French the libretto of several of his operas) and others. Collaborated in the decomp. political periodic editions in 1850-58 edited gas. Le pays (Journal de l'empire). Together they wrote a number of popular works on music and musicians (entertaining in presentation, but superficial), including one of the early monographs on J. Rossini (1854). Historic of interest is their compilation work “Musical Dictionary ...” (1844). In 1862, the brothers stopped the commune. activity.Leon E. retained the leadership of the publishing house, produced gas. "L'art musicale". In 1863 publ. “Memoirs” (journalistic-feuilleton character) of contemporary composers and muses. figures. In 1876-78 he was the director of "Italien". Marie E. made gas. "La France musicale".