Jules Écorcheville
Jules Armand Joseph Écorcheville (born July 17, 1872 in Paris , † February 19, 1915 in Perthes-lès-Hurlus , France) was an important French musicologist .
Life and work
He studied philology at the Sorbonne until 1894, but was also César Franck's composition student from 1887 to 1890 and studied with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig from 1904 to 1905 . In 1906 he received his doctorate with two theses, namely the Vingt Suites ... and De Lulli à Rameau ... . He was equally interested in old and (then) new music. On the one hand, he inventoried, among many other things, the sources of early music in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris until 1750 , and on the other hand, he promoted the composers Erik Satie , Ernest Fanelli (1860–1917) and the Futurists .
In 1904 he and others founded the Paris section of the then important and successful International Music Society (IMG, in French SIM), which, like himself, was strongly committed to early music . In 1907 he continued the musicological magazine Mercure musical , which had been published since May 1905, under the new name Mercure musical et Bulletin français de la SIM ; it was the organ of the Paris section of the IMG / SIM. Here he published reports and comments; Employees were also Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel , with whom he was friends.
In 1912 he was elected President of the IMG. In 1909 he founded the Société française des Amis de la Musique, of which he became vice-president in 1913.
With his fortune he had amassed an important music collection, which came into free float after his death.
Écorcheville was one of the pioneers of French musicology, his interest was particularly directed to the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy ; he became a pioneer of the early music movement that was still emerging at the time . International collaboration in musicology was of particular concern to him.
He became important for German musicology with the aforementioned work Vingt suites… ; it was the transfer and publication of manuscripts of the 17th century from the library of Kassel and was important for the development of early music in Germany.
Works (selection)
- Vingt suites d´orchestre du XVIIe siècle français: (1640-1670); publiées pour la première fois d'après un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de Cassel et précedées d'une étude historique in 2 volumes, Paris 1906; modern reprints.
- De Lulli ((sic)) a Rameau, 1690-1730 L'Esthetique Musicale , Paris 1906; modern reprints.
- Catalog du Fonds de Musique ancienne de la BN ((= Bibliothèque Nationale)) in 8 volumes 1910–1914; modern reprints.
literature
- John Trevitt / Jean Gribenski: Keyword Écorcheville in “The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians” 2nd ed. Volume 7, London and New York 2001, p. 870
- Christian Goubault: Écorcheville, Jules. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
- John Trevitt / Jean Gribenski: Écorcheville, Jules (Armand Joseph). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Jules Ecorcheville in the International Music Score Library Project
- Detailed biography with photos and letters (French) at musicologie
- Family relationships at geneanet
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Écorcheville, Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Écorcheville, Jules Armand Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French music historian and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1915 |
| Place of death | Perthes-lès-Hurlus |