Charles Lalo (24 February 1877 in
Périgueux
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– 1 April 1953 in
Paris
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) was a French writer on aesthetics.
Education and career
Lalo studied philosophy at the
University of Paris
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, gaining a doctorate in 1908.
After being a schoolmaster, he succeeded
Victor Basch
Basch Viktor Vilém, or Victor-Guillaume Basch (18 August 1863/1865, Budapest – 10 January 1944) was a History of the Jews in France, French Jewish politician and professor of germanistics and philosophy at the University of Paris, Sorbonne de ...
in the chair of aesthetics at the
Sorbonne, which he held from 1933 until his death.
[Bojan Bujić, ed., ''Music in European thought, 1851-1912'', Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 216]
Works
* ''Esquisse d'une esthétique musicale scientifique'', 1908.
* ''Les sentiments esthétiques'', 1909.
* ''Introduction à l'esthétique; les méthodes de l'esthétique, beauté naturelle et beauté artistique, l'impressionnisme et le dogmatisme'', 1912.
* ''L'art et la vie sociale'', 1921.
* ''L'art et la morale'', 1922.
* ''Notions d'esthétique'', 1925.
* ''L'expression de la vie dans l'art'', 1933.
* ''Éléments d'une esthétique musicale scientifique'', 1939.
* ''L'art loin de la vie'', 1939.
* ''Esthétique du rire'', 1949.
References
People from Périgueux
1877 births
1953 deaths
French philosophers of art
20th-century French philosophers
French male non-fiction writers
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