Jules-Armand-Joseph Écorcheville (17 March 1872, Paris – 19 February 1915, ,
Marne) was a French musicologist and collector.
He studied literature and philosophy, caught interest in music (a student of
César Franck
César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium.
He was born in Liège (which at the time of h ...
from 1887 to 1890), in
musicology
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, ...
(a student of
Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a mus ...
in 1904–1905 in
Leipzig
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), a discipline to which he devoted himself entirely after that period.
In 1912, he was elected president of the Société Internationale de Musique. Engaged in the French army during the First World War, he was killed during the assault of a German trench.
He had devoted the heritage of his parents to the acquisition of a rich collection of ancient instruments and books on music. The collection was dispersed in 1920.
Works (out of more than 20 studies)
* ''Vingt suites d´orchestre du XVIIe siècle français: (1640–1670); publiées pour la première fois d'après un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de Cassel et précedées d'une étude historique'' in 2 volumes, Paris 1906
*''De Lulli (sic) à Rameau, 1690–1730 L'Esthetique Musicale'', Paris 1906
*''Catalogue du Fonds de Musique ancienne de la BN'' (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) in 8 volumes 1910–1914
External links
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Biography, pictures and letters* Généalogie de Jules Ecorcheville sur Geneane
Jules Écorchevilleon Encyclopédie Larousse
20th-century French musicologists
French collectors
People from Marne (department)
1872 births
1915 deaths
French military personnel killed in World War I
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