Samuel Baud-Bovy

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Samuel Baud-Bovy (born November 27, 1906 in Geneva ; † November 2, 1986 ibid) was a Swiss musician, a specialist in Greek church and folk music , ethnomusicologist , neo-Greekist and politician. Among other things, he was a councilor for the city of Geneva from 1943 to 1947 .

Life

Grave of the musicologist and politician Samuel Baud-Bovy (1906–1986) in the Ancien Cimetière de Plainpalais in Geneva.

Baud-Bovy was born in Geneva in 1906 as the son of the painter and writer Daniel Baud-Bovy . He first studied humanities in Geneva (doctorate in 1936) and Paris as well as violin with Fernand Closset at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève . He also received private composition lessons from Charles Chaix . In 1926/27 he studied conducting with Rudolf Nilius and music history with Guido Adler in Vienna. Further studies abroad in composition led him to Paul Dukas in 1928/29 and in musicology to André Pirro in Paris. In Basel he was taught conducting by Felix Weingartner and in Geneva by Hermann Scherchen . From 1929 to 1931 he studied church and folk music in Greece.

From 1933 to 1935 he worked as an orchestra teacher at the Geneva Conservatory and from 1942 to 1973 as a conductor. He brought works by u. a. Henri Gagnebin , Frank Martin and Constantin Regamey for the world premiere. After he was deputy director from 1947, he worked from 1957 to 1970 as director of the Geneva Conservatory. From 1931 to 1958 he was a teacher of Modern Greek at the University of Geneva, in 1958 he was awarded an honorary professorship .

He was also director of the Société de Chant Sacré from 1938 to 1977 . From 1955 to 1960 he was President of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein (in personal union with the Swiss section of the International Society for New Music). From 1961 to 1963 he was President of the International Society for Music Education . In 1977 he was elected to the governing body of the International Council for Traditional Music .

Baud-Bovy was married to Lyvia Angst, daughter of the sculptor Carl Albert Angst .

Awards

Fonts

  • La chanson popular grecque du Dodécanèse . Paris 1936
  • Études sur la chanson cleftique . Athens 1958
  • Essai sur la chanson popular grecque . Athens 1983. Greek translation: Δοκίμιο για το Ελληνικό τραγούδι . Ναύπλιο: Πελοποννησιακό Λαογραφικό Ίδρυμα 1984, and: Δοκίμιο για το Ελληνικό τραγούδι. Μεταγραφή των μουσικών παραδειγμάτων που περιλαμβάνουν οι κασέτες . Ναύπλιο: Πελοποννησιακό Λαογραφικό Ίδρυμα 1984.

literature

  • Bertrand Bouvier : A la mémoire de Samuel Baud Bovy (1906-1986). Samuel Baud – Bovy et la chanson popular grecque . In: Bulletin Annuel du Musée d'Ethnographie de la Ville de Genève , 1987, no. 28, pp. 111-113.
  • Rudolf Maria Brandl (Ed.): Greek Music and Europe: Antiquity - Byzantium - Folk Music of the Modern Age. In memory of Samuel Baud-Bovy . Symposium The Relationship of Greek Music to the European Music Tradition from 9-11. May 1986 in Würzburg of the International Center for Science, Ecumenical and Cultural Cooperation e. V., Greek-German Initiative. Rudolf M. Brandl u. Evangelos Konstantinou . Ed. Herodotus, Aachen 1988 (Orbis musicarum, 3), ISBN 3-924007-77-2
  • Jacques Tchamkerten: Samuel Baud-Bovy . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 130. (French)

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personal data
SURNAME Baud-Bovy, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, musicologist and neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd 1986
Place of death Geneva