Jules Gallay (4 September 1822 – 3 September 1897) was a French lawyer and

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Biography

Born in a Genevese Protestant family, Jules Gallay was the son of Antoine Gallay, a naturalized French merchant. A lawyer by the

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, he became first deputy mayor of the

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on 9 July 1871. Gallay was a member of the music section of the international jury at the

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and wrote an official report on the arch instruments. He was a member of the admissions committee and the jury at the 1878 exposition de Paris. He was a collaborator of the "supplements" to the ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'' by

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. He was an assessor of the board of directors of the Society of Patronage of Protestant released prisoners and of the Administrative Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Primary Education among Protestants in France. Gallay made various donations to several museums, including a violin by Francois-Louis Pique and the portrait of

Marin Marais Marin Marais (; 31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colomb ...

painted by André Bouys to the Musée instrumental of the

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in 1888. On 14 June 1847 Gallay married Laure , a granddaughter of and grand-niece of General-count . Mrs Gallay succeeded Ms at the head of the ''Association protestante de bienfaisance de Paris'', which she presided from 1871 to 1892 (replaced by Ms de Neuflize). They were the grands-parents of , confounder and general secretary of the

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(whose daughter, tennis player , married ), and Marie-Antoinette Gallay, wife of general Charles Jordan.

Some publications

*''Les luthiers italiens aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles''. (1868, 1869, 2010) *''Le mariage de la musique avec la danse (1864) : précédé d'une introduction historique et accompagné de notes éclaircissements'' (1870) *''Les instruments des écoles italiennes : catalogue, précédé d'une introduction et suivi de notes sur les principaux maîtres''. (1872, 2010) *''La Musique en Lorraine, étude rétrospective d'après les archives locales'' (1882, 1972) *''Un inventaire sous la terreur : État des instruments de musique relevé chez les émigrés et condamnés'' (1890, 2010) *''Les instruments à archet à l'Exposition universelle de 1867'' (1980, 1981) *''Les instruments à archet: à l'exposition universelle de Vienne, en 1873'' (1875)

Bibliography

, ''Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique''.''Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique''
on Gallica *''Dictionnaire Biographique de l'Aisne'' *Florence Gétreau, ''Aux origines du musée de la musique : les collections instrumentales du Conservatoire de Paris : 1793-1993'', 1996 *Mariano Pérez Gutiérrez, ''Diccionario de la música y los músicos: (F-O)'', 1985 *François Michel, ''Encyclopédie de la musique, Volume 2'', 1959

References

External links

Jules Gallay rend hommage à l'archet...

Jules Gallay in One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallay, Jules 1822 births People from Saint-Quentin, Aisne 19th-century French lawyers French music historians 19th-century French musicologists Knights of the Legion of Honour 1897 deaths 19th-century musicologists