Jean Gallois, pseudonym of Jean Gaillard, (30 March 1929 – 4 October 2022) was a French musicologist, violinist, music historian, and music critic.
Biography
Gallois published numerous books on
Baroque music
Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transiti ...
,
Romantic music
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, and music from the 19th and 20th centuries. He became close with composer
Maurice Delage in 1948
and compiled a catalog of his works.
His biography of
Ernest Chausson earned him the Grand Prix Bernier from the
Académie des Beaux-Arts. His book, ''Les Polignac, mécènes du xxe siècle'', was honored by the ''Institut social de France et de l'Union européenne''.
Gallois created the collection ''Horizons'' with Bleu nuit, which he directed until 2008. He was also a member of the
Académie Charles Cros and the scientific committee of the Musée
Eugène Carrière
Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the fin-de-siècle period. Carrière's paintings are best known for their near-monochrome brown palette and their ethereal, dreamlike quality. He ...
.
Jean Gallois died on 4 October 2022, at the age of 93.
Discography
*"Ernest Chausson, ''Le Roi Arthus''" (1987)
*"Maurice Delage" (1998)
*"Cinq Quintettes avec piano de l'école française" (2014)
Publications
*''Jean-Sébastien Bach'' (1961)
*''Richard Wagner'' (1962)
*''César Franck'' (1966)
*''Ernest Chausson'' (1967)
*''Antonio Vivaldi'' (1967)
*''Anton Bruckner'' (1971)
*''Robert Schumann'' (1972)
*''Georg Friedrich Haendel'' (1980)
*''César Franck'' (1980)
*''Ernest Chausson'' (1994)
*''Les Polignac, mécènes du xxe siècle'' (1995)
*''Les grands musiciens'' (1997)
*''Ernest Chausson : écrits inédits, journaux intimes, roman de jeunesse, correspondance'' (1999)
*''Jean-Baptiste Lully ou la naissance de la tragédie lyrique'' (2001)
*''Henri Collet ou l'Espagne impérieuse'' (2001)
*''Camille Saint-Saëns'' (2004)
*''Anton Bruckner'' (2014)
*''Igor Stravinski'' (2016)
*''Georg Friedrich Haendel'' (2019)
*''Robert Schumann'' (2020)
References
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1929 births
2022 deaths
20th-century French musicologists
French music critics
20th-century French violinists
People from Nevers