Lamoureux, Charles (1834–1899)

French violinist and conductor. In 1881 he founded the Concerts Lamoureux, at which he made a great deal of orchestral music, including that of Wagner, known to a wide public.

He studied violin and theory at the Paris Conservatory, joined a theatre orchestra, then played at the Paris Opéra. In 1860 he helped to found a chamber music society for the introduction of new works, and conducted choral works by Bach, Handel, and others in the 1870s. He then became conductor at the Opéra. He toured Russia in 1893 and gave regular concerts in London, England, from 1896.