Lionel Dauriac (19 November 1847 – 26 May 1923) was a French philosopher and musicologist. Dauriac was born in Brest, the son of an admiral. He was professor of musical aesthetics at the Sorbonne between 1896 and 1903. He died 26 May 1923 in Paris. An internationally minded music critic, he wrote biographies of Gioachino Rossini, Richard Wagner and Giacomo Meyerbeer. Works Des notions de matière et de force dans les sciences de la nature, 1878. Croyance et realité, 1889. Rossini: biographie critique, 1902. Essai sur l'esprit musical, 1904. Meyerbeer, 1913. Contingence et rationalisme; pages d'histoire et de doctrine, 1924. References Writers from Brest, France 1847 births 1923 deaths 19th-century French philosophers 20th-century French philosophers 19th-century French musicologists 20th-century French musicologists French biographers École Normale Supérieure alumni Lycée Lakanal teachers 19th-century musicologists