André Schaeffner

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Members of the Dakar-Djibouti Mission of the Trocadéro Ethnography Museum . From left to right: André Schaeffner, Jean Mouchet, Georges Henri Rivière , Michel Leiris , Baron Outomsky, Marcel Griaule , Éric Lutten, Jean Moufle, Gaston-Louis Roux, Marcel Larget, 1931

André Schaeffner (born February 7, 1895 in Paris ; died August 11, 1980 in Paris) was a French ethnomusicologist .

André Schaeffner studied in Paris at the École du Louvre , the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) and at the Schola Cantorum music academy and initially worked as a music critic . From 1920 he wrote for the music magazine Le Ménestrel , from 1922 for the Revue musicale , and later also for the magazines Contrepoint , Rassegan musicale and the Journal des africanistes . He turned more and more to music-ethnological topics.

From 1929 to 1965 he headed the department for ethnomusicology he founded at the Musée de l'homme . His research trips took him to western Africa from 1931 to 1958 . He was initially Vice President, from 1958 to 1968 President of the French Society for Music Research. As editor he edited a. a. Chamber music by François Couperin . He was involved in the French edition of the Riemann Music Lexicon and developed a new classification system for musical instruments that differs from the Hornbostel-Sachs system .

A collection of his writings can be found in the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel . Schaeffner was married to the ethnologist and Africanist Denise Paulme .

Fonts (selection)

  • Origine des instruments de musique: Introduction à l'histoire de la musique instrumentale , Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1995. ISBN 978-2713210112 (first Paris, Payot, 1936)
  • Variations sur la musique , Fayard, Paris 1998. ISBN 978-2213600888
  • Correspondance avec Pierre Boulez , 1954-1970, Fayard, Paris 1998. ISBN 978-2213600932
  • Le sistre et le hochet: musique, théâtre et danses africaines , Editions Hermann, Paris 1990. ISBN 978-2705661472

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Honegger; Günther Massenkeil (ed.) The Great Lexicon of Music, Volume 7, Herder, Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 1976, p. 223
  2. ↑ Kartomi, Margaret J .: On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. University of Chicago Press., 1990
  3. ^ André Schaeffner in the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel , accessed on January 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schaeffner, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ethnomusicologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1980
Place of death Paris