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Jacques-Gabriel Prod’homme (28 November 1871, Paris – 18 June 1956, Paris) was a French musicologist and has been president of the French association of musicologists
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in 1944.


Books

* ''Les Menus Plaisirs du Roi. L'École Royale et le Conservatoire de Musique'', with E. de Crauzat, collection « Paris qui disparaît », Delagrave, 1929. * ''Vingt Chefs-d'œuvre jugés par leurs contemporains.
Corneille Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...
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Montesquieu Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (; ; 18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the principa ...
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Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, ...
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Flaubert Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...
etc. Opinions, critics, selected correspondence and annotated by Albert Thibaudet'', Stock, 1931. * ''
Hector Berlioz In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
1803–1869. Sa vie et ses œuvres'', after new documents and the most recent work, followed by a musical and literary bibliography an iconography and a genealogy of the family of Hector Berlioz from the 16th, foreword by
Alfred Bruneau Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857 – 15 June 1934) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. Life Born in Paris, Bruneau studied the cello as a youth at the Paris Conservator ...
, Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1904 ; 1913. * ''
Gounod Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''Faust (opera), Faust'' (1859); his ''Roméo et Juliette'' (18 ...
1818–1893. Sa vie et ses œuvres d'après des documents inédits'', with A. Dandelot, preface by
Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...
, deux volumes, Paris, Delagrave, 1911. * '' Paganini'', collection « Les Musiciens Célèbres », Henri Laurens, 1927. * ''Voltaire raconté par ceux qui l'ont vu. Souvenirs, lettres, documents, etc., réunis, annotés et accompagnés de résumés biographiques'', foreword by
Édouard Herriot Édouard Marie Herriot (; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister (1924–1925; 1926; 1932) and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the ...
, to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of
Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ...
, Paris, librairie Stock, Delamain et Boutelleau, 1929 * ''
Gluck Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period (music), classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the ...
'', Sefi, 1948. * ''
Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
'', Portraits d'hier, deuxième année, numéro 43, 15 December 1910. * '' W.A Mozart, sa vie et ses œuvres'', Paris, Librairie Delagrave, 1925. Translation adaptation after the second edition of the book by A. Schurig. * ''L'Opéra (1665–1925).'', Paris 1925. Description du nouvel opéra.– Historique.– Salles occupées par l'opéra depuis son origine.– Dénominations officielles.– Directions.– Répertoire.– Principaux artistes.– Bibliographie. with a catalog of works presented at the Opéra since 1669. * ''L'Immortelle Bien-aimée de
Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
'', « collection Petits Mystères de l'Histoire et de l'Art » (numéro 4). Paris, Éditions Glomeau, 1946. * ''
Napoléon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
– Lettres, Discours, Proclamations, Ordres, Messages'', adorned with a portrait of Napoleon after Vignen, frontispiece, collection « Les plus belles pages », Paris, Mercure de France, 1938 * ''Vingt chefs-d'œuvre jugés par leurs contemporains (from
Le Cid ''Le Cid'' is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Castro's play ''Las Mocedades del Cid''. Castro' ...
to
Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' ( ), is a novel by France, French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities ...
). Opinions, critiques, correspondances choisies et annotées'', preface by Albert Thibaudet, Éd. Stock, 1930. * ''
François-Joseph Gossec François-Joseph Gossec (17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works. Life and work The son of a small farmer, Gossec was born at the village of Vergnies, then a French e ...
(1734–1829 ). La Vie – Les Œuvres. – L'Homme et l'Artiste'', Paris, La Colombe, 1949. * ''Wagner et la France'', éditions Maurice Sénart, 1921 ; Text on IA
/small> * ''Pensées sur la Musique et les Musiciens'', Paris, Heugel, 1926. * ''La Toilette féminine à travers les âges de 1490 à 1645 et de 1645 à 1720, Nilsson, circa 1930, 2 vol. * ''
Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
raconté par ceux qui l'ont vu'', Stock, 1927. * ''Les Sonates pour piano de Beethoven'', letter preface by
Louis Barthou Jean Louis Barthou (; 25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. In social policy, his time as prime minister saw the introduction (in Jul ...
of the Académie Française, Paris, Delagrave, 1944. * ''Les Symphonies de Beethoven'', foreword by
Édouard Colonne Édouard Juda Colonne (23 July 1838 – 28 March 1910) was a French conductor and violinist, who was a champion of the music of Berlioz and other eminent 19th-century composers. Life and career Colonne was born in Bordeaux, the son and gran ...
, Éditions Delagrave, 1906. Work crowned by the
Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
( Prix Charles-Blanc)


Translations

* ''Œuvres en prose de
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 ...
'', translated into French by J. -G. Prod’homme, in collaboration with Dr phil. F. Holl, F. Caillé et L. van Vassenhove, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 13 volumes, 1907–1925. *
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 ...
, ''Les Maîtres Chanteurs de Nuremberg'' (''
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditio ...
''), three-act comédie lyrique, Librairie Delagrave. 1922. Translation in prose preceded by a notice by J.-G. Prod’Homme. * W.- A. Mozart, ''La Flûte enchantée (
The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ''Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that inclu ...
)'', two-part opera, poem by Ludwig Giesecke and
Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (born Johann Joseph Schickeneder; 1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812) was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera ''The Magic Flute'' and was t ...
, French translation of the original libretto by J.-G. Prod’homme and Jules Kienlin.


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Jacques-Gabriel Prod’homme
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