Casimir Gide

Casimir Gide (4 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a 19th-century French composer, bookseller as well as prints and maps editor. Biography The son of the Parisian bookseller Theophile Etienne Gide (1768–1837), 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 *1828: Les Trois Marie, vaudeville by Louis Duport, chant and accompagnement *1829: La Cachucha *1830: La Chatte blanche *1830: Les Trois Catherine, with Adolphe Adam *1830: Le Roi de Sicile, opéra comique in 1 act, with Frédéric Soulié *1831: Les Jumeaux de la Réole *1832: La tentation *1835: L’île des pirates, ballet-pantomime in 4 acts *1836: Le Diable boiteux, ballet pantomime in 3 acts, with Edmond