Adrien de Lafage , La Fage (Adrien de La Fage; March 28, 1801 [3] , Paris - March 8, 1862, Saint-Maurice ) - French musicologist, source.
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Essay on Biography and Creativity
He received his primary musical education at the school at the Paris church Saint-Philippe du Roule (San Philippe du Roule), where he also sang in the choir. The family of Adrien planned for him the career of a Catholic priest, for this reason the young man was sent to study at the seminary at the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnay , where he learned classical languages. Having abandoned his church career, he entered the Paris Conservatory , where he studied until 1828 in the classes of Alexander Shoron and Francois Pernet. In 1828 he was awarded a royal grant and trained as a composer in Italy (with Giuseppe Baini ). In 1829 he returned to Paris, where until 1833 he served as the leader of the choir (maître de chapelle) in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Monts .
In 1833 he left with his family in Italy, where his wife and son died as a result of a transient disease. In 1836 he returned to France, mainly engaged in the history of music and music science of the Middle Ages. In 1859 he founded and headed the periodical Le plainchant, which published articles (including Lafage himself) on church music. Excessive overwork caused by scientific and administrative work caused Lafage's nervous illness, which ultimately led to his placement in the Charenton Psychiatric Clinic (near Paris; modern name is Hôpital Esquirol ).
The book “Essais de diphtérographie musicale” [4] (published posthumously in 1864), which is a colorful collection of codicological descriptions of musical and theoretical music manuscripts, from fragments of previously unknown music texts from different eras and styles, stands out in the extensive scientific heritage of Lafage. Throughout the XX century, the book remained relevant, and partly remains in demand in the XXI century, as in many cases Lafage relied on manuscripts now lost. Some ancient texts published in the anthology of Lafage have not been critically reprinted so far [5] .
Among Lafage's other works is the scientific monograph Musical Semiology (1837), The General History of Music and Dance, both volumes of which (1841, 1844) are devoted to ancient music (Chinese, Indian, Egyptian and Jewish). The author of an extensive (872 p.) Treatise on Gregorianics (1855), in the annex to which (1856) he published several of his own polyphonic compositions of chorales. He completed and published the musical encyclopedia initiated by Shoron, “Manuel complet de musique vocale et instrumentale” (11 volumes, 1836-38).
Proceedings (selection)
- Séméiologie musical. Paris, 1837
- Histoire générale de la musique et de la danse. Paris, 1841 (vol. 1), 1844 (vol. 2).
- Nicolai Capuani presbyteri compendium musicale. Paris, 1853
- Cours complet de plain-chant. Nouveau traité méthodique et raisonné du chant liturgique de l'église latine, a l'usage de tous les diocèses. Paris, 1855 (main text, p.1-524), 1856 (appendix, p.525-872).
- Extraits du catalog critique et raisonné d'une petite bibliothèque musicale. Rennes, 1857
- De l'unité tonique et de la fixation d'un diapason universel. Paris, 1859
- Essais de diphtérographie musicale, ou Notices, descriptions, analyses, extraits et reproduction de manuscrits relatifs a la pratique, a la théorie et l'histoire de la musique. Paris, 1864.556 p.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ According to NGD 2001, March 30, 1805.
- ↑ Neologism "diphtherography" is formed from other Greek. διφθέρα “leather for writing”, “parchment”, in the figurative sense - “old book”, etc. Greek. γράφω - “I am writing.”
- ↑ As, for example, the treatise “Compendium musicale” (1415) by Nikolai Kapuansky (pp. 308-335) published by Lafage and the anonymous treatise on music of the second half of the 11th century, describing irregular, not obeying the general rule of tones , church chants (pp. 87 -89).
Literature
- Chouquet G., Hutchings A. La Fage // The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. NY L., 2001.