Jean Étienne Feytou (1742 in
Saint-Martin-lès-Langres – 2 May 1816) 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 ...
.
Feytou became a priest at the death of his wife (1789) and devoted himself to music research. In this capacity, he contributed articles on music for the
Encyclopédie méthodique
The ''Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières'' () was published between 1782 and 1832 by the France, French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, his son-in-law Henri Agasse, and the latter's wife, Thérèse-Charlotte Agasse. Arranged by ...
''L'encyclopédie méthodique'' (1782-1832): des lumières au positivisme
/ref> by French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke.
He became parish priest of Champigny-lès-Langres
Champigny-lès-Langres (, literally ''Champigny near Langres'') is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Haute-Marne department
The following is a list of the 426 communes in the Frenc ...
in 1815 where he died in 1816. He is buried in Champigny cemetery.
See also
* Municipal bulletin No 19 of the commune of Champigny-lès-Langres.
* Article by Lucien Gallion Boisselier "Au siècle des Lumières, un homme hors du commun, Jean-Étienne Feytou", Bulletin de la Société Historique et Archéologique de Langres, 4th trimestre 1983, TXVIII, No 273, (pp. 170-178).
References
External links
Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences
Jean Étienne Feytou
on data.bnf.fr
Jean Étienne Feytou
on IdRef
1742 births
1816 deaths
18th-century French musicologists
19th-century French musicologists
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