Camille Chevillard
# Camille Chevillard

Paul Alexandre Camille Chevillard (14 October 1859 – 30 May 1923) was a French composer and conductor.

## Biography

He was born in Paris. He conducted the Orchestre Lamoureux in the premieres of Claude Debussy's Nocturnes (1900 and 1901) and La mer (1905), and promoted the music of Albéric Magnard. He was the son-in-law of the conductor Charles Lamoureux: in 1888 he married Lamoureux's daughter Marguerite. He died in Chatou.

His pupils included Suzanne Chaigneau, Clotilde Coulombe, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Yvonne Hubert, Eugeniusz Morawski, and Robert Soetens.

## Selected works

### Stage

* La Rousalka, Incidental Music for the play by Édouard Schuré (1903)

### Orchestral

* Ballade symphonique, Op. 6 (1889)
* Le chène et le roseau (The Oak and the Reed), Symphonic Poem after the fable by Jean de La Fontaine, Op. 7 (published 1900)
* Fantaisie symphonique, Op. 10

### Chamber music

* Piano Quintet in E♭ minor, Op. 1 (1882)
* Piano Trio, Op. 3 (1884)
* Quatre pièces (4 Pieces) for viola (or violin) and piano, Op. 4 (1887)
* Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 8 (published 1894)
* Quatre petites pièces (4 Little Pieces) for cello and piano, Op. 11 (1893)
* Sonata in B♭ major for cello and piano, Op. 15 (1896)
* String Quartet in D♭ major, Op. 16 (1897–98)
* Allegro for horn and piano, Op. 18
* Introduction et marche for viola and piano, Op. 22 (published 1905)

### Piano

* Thème et variations, Op. 5
* Impromptu in D♭ major, Op. 14
* Zacharie (d'apres Michel-Ange), Op. 19
* Étude chromatique

### Vocal

* Attente for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, Op. 12
