Casimir Gide

Casimir Gide
Les Trois Grâces by Charles Challon for Le Diable boiteux by Casimir Gide
Born	4 July 1804 Paris
Died	18 February 1868(1868-02-18) (aged 63)
Occupation	Composer, bookseller, prints editor

Casimir Gide (4 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a 19th-century French composer, bookseller as well as prints and maps editor.

The son of the Parisian bookseller Theophile Etienne Gide (1768-1837), to whom he will 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 was patended bookseller from maison Gide fils. He was a major printer of lithographs and financed the publication of six volumes among the 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.

He wrote incidental music, ballets and operas.