Jules Armand Joseph Ekorshvil ( Fr. Jules Écorcheville ; March 17, 1872 , Paris - February 19, 1915 , Perth-le-Yurlu, Marne department ) - French musicologist and collector . President of the International Musical Society (since 1912). Doctor of Art History (since 1906). One of the pioneers of French musicology.
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Biography
Born into a Parisian pastry family. From 1887 to 1890 he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Cesar Franck . Until 1894, he studied philology at the Sorbonne .
In the years 1904-1905 in Leipzig he studied musicology under the guidance of Hugo Riemann , a discipline to which he fully devoted himself after graduation.
In 1906 he defended his thesis “Musical Aesthetics from Lully to Rameau” at the Sorbonne .
Together with G. G. Prodomm and L. Doriac, in 1904, he founded the French section of the International Musical Society and in the same year became its president.
In September 1906, he participated in Basel in the second Congress of the International Musical Society and proposed the founding of the French Bulletin of the Society.
J. Ecorschwil - one of the organizers and editor of the music magazine "Bulletin français de la SIM" (from 1907 - "Mercure musical et Bulletin français de la SIM", from 1908 - "SIM bulletin français", from 1909. - “Revue musicale SIM”). His friends Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel collaborated with the magazine.
In 1912 he was elected president of the International Musical Society.
Member of the First World War. He served as a lieutenant of the infantry regiment, was wounded. Killed during the storming of the German positions near Marna.
Creativity
J. Ecorschwiller collected and published the Acts of the Civil Status of Musicians ... (1907) and compiled a catalog of the early music collection of the National Library of France (brought it to 1750; so 1-8, 1910-1914), which were valuable material for studying French music cultures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Of particular interest to him were the ensemble “ Twenty-Four King Violins ”.
He collected a unique collection of old books and notes (mainly medieval music and the French violin school). He spent part of his money on collecting old musical instruments and a valuable musical library that was lost after his death in 1920.
Author of more than 20 works on musicology. He owns a number of publications, including “Twenty Orchestra Suites of the 17th Century” (“Vingt suites d´orchestre du XVIIe siècle français: (1640–1670)”, v. 1-2, 1906).
Selected Publications
- De Lulli ((sic)) a Rameau, 1690-1730 L'Esthetique Musicale , Paris 1906;
- Catalog du Fonds de Musique ancienne de la BN , 1910-1914e.
Literature
- Musical Encyclopedia. - M .: Soviet encyclopedia, Soviet composer. Ed. Yu. V. Keldysh. 1973-1982.
Notes
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ International Music Score Library Project - 2006.