Camille Chevillard

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

Chevillard began composing chamber music in 1882: first a quintet for piano and strings, then a quartet, a trio and sonatas, which were performed in various concerts, notably at the Société Nationale de Musique.

He became voice coach for the Concerts-Lamoureux(1887) and in this capacity he took part in the "heroic and legendary" Paris premiere of Lohengrin at the Eden-Théâtre in 1887.

As a conductor, he turned to the German and Russian[4] Romantic repertoire, but he also conducted the Lamoureux Orchestra in the first performances of Pelléas et Mélisande (1901) by Gabriel Fauré, the Nocturnes (1900-1901) and especially La Mer (1905) by Claude Debussy and La Valse (1920) by Maurice Ravel.

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