Écorcheville, Jules (Armand Joseph)
Écorcheville, Jules (Armand Joseph)
Écorcheville, Jules (Armand Joseph) , French writer on music; b. Paris, July 17, 1872; d. in a battle in Perthes-les-Hurlus, Feb. 19, 1915. He was a pupil of Franck (1887–90), then studied literature and art history at the Sorbonne (bachelier es lettres, 1891; licencie es lettres, 1894; Ph.D., 1906, with the diss. Vingt suites d’orchestre du XVIIs siecle frangais; publ. in Paris and Berlin, 1906; suppl. diss., 1906, De Lulli a Rameau, 1690–1730: L’Esthetique musicale; publ. in Paris, 1906); he also studied musicology with Riemann at the Univ. of Leipzig (1905). He was active as a writer on the history and aesthetics of music. He was ed. of the Mercure musical et bulletin frangais de la S.I.M. (and its successors) from 1907, he ed. Actes d’Etat-civil de musiciens insinues au Chatelet de Paris (1539–1650) (Paris, 1907), and also prepared a Catalogue du fonds de musique ancienne de la Bibliotheque Nationale (some 10,000 items projected in 10 vols., of which only 8 were publ.).
Bibliography
I L. Laloy, L. de la Laurencie, and E. Vuillermoz, Le Tombeau de /. E.: Suivi de lettres inedites (Paris, 1916).
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