Georges Servières (13 October 1858 – 25 July 1937) was a 19th/20th-century French musicologist and music critic.

Books

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Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

jugé En France'', Librairie Illustrée, 1890. * ''

Tannhäuser Tannhäuser (; gmh, Tanhûser), often stylized, "The Tannhäuser," was a German Minnesinger and traveling poet. Historically, his biography, including the dates he lived, is obscure beyond the poetry, which suggests he lived between 1245 and 1 ...

à l'Opéra en 1861'', Paris, Fischbacher, 1895. * Biographies of musicians appeared in collection « Les Musiciens Célèbres », Paris, Librairie Renouard /Henri Laurens, Éditeur : ** ''

Weber Weber (, or ; German: ) is a surname of German origin, derived from the noun meaning " weaver". In some cases, following migration to English-speaking countries, it has been anglicised to the English surname 'Webber' or even 'Weaver'. Notable pe ...

, biographie critique'', illustrated with twelve reproductions inset, circa 1910. ** ''

Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...

'', 1930 illustrated with 12 engravings inset - Étude critique. ** ''

Édouard Lalo Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer. His most celebrated piece is the ''Symphonie espagnole'', a five-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, which remains a popular work in the standard reper ...

'', s.d. * Collection « Les Maîtres de la Musique », Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, ** '' Saint-Saëns'', 1923 ** ''

Emmanuel Chabrier Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (; 18 January 184113 September 1894) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and pianist. His Bourgeoisie, bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked ...

1841-1894'', 1912. * ''La Décoration artistique des buffets d'orgues'', éd. G. Van Oest, Paris et Brussels, 1928. * ''Cités d'Allemagne'', Paris, Charpentier 1902. * ''

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

Freiberg Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany. It is a so-called ''Große Kreisstadt'' (large county town) and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district. Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage c ...

and

Meissen Meissen (in German orthography: ''Meißen'', ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrecht ...

'', collection « Les villes d'art célèbres », 119 engravings, publisher H. Laurens, 1911 - * ''L'Allemagne française sous Napoléon Ier'', after unpublished documents from the national archives and the archives of Foreign Affairs, with an extendible chart inset of the annexed territories, Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1904. Text on Gallica
/small> * ''Épisodes d'Histoire musicale'', Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1914. * Divers : ** ''Rémiette.'', Paris, Ernest Kolb, s.d. ** ''Roseline - Mœurs contemporaines'', with 2 prints in sepia by Boutet, Paris, E. Giraud et Cie, 1885. Text on Gallica
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Articles

Georges Servières collaborated with numerous magazines including: * ''

Le Ménestrel ''Le Ménestrel'' (The Minstrel) was an influential French music journal published weekly from 1833 until 1940. It was founded by Joseph-Hippolyte l'Henry and originally printed by Poussièlgue. In 1840 it was acquired by the music publishers Heu ...

'', * ''Le Guide musical'', * ''

La Revue musicale ''La Revue musicale'' was a music magazine founded by Henry Prunières in 1920. ''La Revue musicale'' of Prunières was undoubtedly the first music publishing magazine giving as much attention to the quality of editing, iconography, and illustrat ...

'', * ''La Tribune de Saint-Gervais'', * ''La

Gazette des Beaux-Arts The ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' was a French art review, founded in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editorial secretary under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1936 ...

'', * ''La Revue d'art dramatique''.

Translations

Georges Servières translated German opera librettos into French: * ''

Der Freischütz ' ( J. 277, Op. 77 ''The Marksman'' or ''The Freeshooter'') is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 181 ...

'', three-act opera, music by

Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his opera ...

, translation of the poem by

Johann Friedrich Kind Johann Friedrich Kind (4 March 1768, in Leipzig – 24 June 1843 in Dresden) was a German dramatist, most famous for writing the libretto for Carl Maria von Weber's opera ''Der Freischütz'' (1821). Biography He studied law, and began his law p ...

, preceded by a history of the work and its French adaptations, Fischbacher, Floury, Paris, 1913. *

, ''

'', composer's libretto.

External links

Gabriel Fauré by Georges Servières
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