Jules Léon-Jean Combarieu (4 February 1859 – 4 February 1916) was a French

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and music critic.

Life

Like his elder brother, (born 30 January 1856 in Cahors) who was to become the Private Secretary of Président de la République

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, Jules Combarieu was the son of Henri Combarieu, a printer, and Marie-Louise Salbant, who married in

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in 1855. He first studied at la Sorbonne, then in Berlin with

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. He was first a professor of letters at the Lycee de Cahors. In 1894, he received the title of doctor of letters with ''Les Rapports de la Musique et de la poésie considérées au point de vue de l'expression''.After . In 1901, Combarieu founded the ''Revue d'histoire et de critique musicales'', which became ''La Revue musicale'' in 1904 before merging with the journal of the ''Société internationale de musique'' (S.I.M.) in 1912. Between 1904 et 1910, he was professor of music at the

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

. His brother Abel Combarieu was the uncle of diplomat and writer

Paul Morand Paul Morand (13 March 1888 – 24 July 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. He was m ...

, a member of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

Works

*''Le Rapport de la poésie et de la musique considérée du point de vue de l'expression'' (thesis, 1893) *"L'Influence de la musique allemande sur la musique française", in: ''Jahrbuch Peters'' (1895) * studies in musical

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

: #''Théorie du rythme dans la composition moderne d'après la doctrine antique'' (1896) #''Essai sur l'archéologie musicale au XXe et le problème de l'origine des neumes'' (1896) – these two works were awarded the prize of the Académie) #''Fragment de l'Énéide en musique d'après un manuscrit inédit'' (1898) *''Élément de grammaire musicale historique'' (1906) *''La Musique: ses lois, son évolution'' (Paris,

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, 1907) (numerous editions in English), Prix Charles Blanc of the Académie française *' (3 volumes, Paris 1913–19, an authoritative work – then 5 volumes with

René Dumesnil René Dumesnil (19 June 1879 – 24 December 1967) was a French physician, literary critic and musicologist. Dumesnil studied literature at the Sorbonne and became a literary critic. Then he was music critic for '' Le Mercure de France'' and '' ...

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1955–1960). * Poésies de Valentin (Henri Bourette), ( and Jules Combarieu) (Cahors: Lemerre, 1885)

Sources

*''Dictionnaire bibliographique des musiciens'' (

éditions Robert Laffont Éditions Robert Laffont () is a book publishing company in France founded in 1941 by (1916–2010). Its publications are distributed in almost all francophone countries, but mainly in France, Canada Canada is a country in North Amer ...

References

External links

*
La musique au Moyen-âge
' in '' Revue de synthèse'', tome I, I.1, p. 84 - 110, August 1900
Jules Combarieu
on the site of the Académie française
Jules Combarieu. ''La musique et la magie; étude sur les origines populaires de l'art musical; son influence et sa fonction dans les sociétés''. (compte-rendu)
on Persée
Jules Combarieu
on Encyclopédie larousse on line {{DEFAULTSORT:Combarieu, Jules People from Cahors 1859 births 1916 deaths 19th-century French musicologists 20th-century French musicologists Academic staff of the Collège de France Lycée Louis-le-Grand teachers