Pryor Baird - My Town (The Voice Performance)

LANDORMY (Landormi) Paul Charles Rene 13 I 1869, Issy, near Paris - 7 II or XI (?) 1943, Paris] - French musicologist and muses. critic. Professor of Philosophy in decomp. educational institutions in France, L. from 1892 began to study music, took singing lessons. Having settled in Paris, in 1902 he organized and read (with R. Rolland) a series of lectures on the history of music, created and headed (1904-07) a laboratory for the study of acoustics. L. led the music. critical work, constantly speaking on the pages of the press (Figaro, Temp, etc.). He lectured on music in decomp. European countries. The author of major works on the history of music (including the largest study on French music - “La musique francaise”), many of which have been translated into other languages, monographs on I. Brahms (1921, 1948), F. Schubert ( 1928), J. Bizet (1924, 1929), A. Roussel (1938), C. Glucke (1941), S. Gounod (1942).He headed the publication of a series of books ("Les Chefs d'oeuvre de la musique expliques"), which included his book: "Faust" Gounod. "