Marc Pincherle was born in
Constantine
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*Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria
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on 13 June 1888 and died in
Paris
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on 20 June 1974. A French
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
, music critic and violinist, he was the pupil of
Louis Laloy
Louis Laloy ( Gray, 18 February 1874 – Dole, 4 March 1944 ) was a French musicologist, writer and sinologist.
A Doctor of Letters (he spoke French, English, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Greek and Chinese), he became an eminent musicologist ...
,
André Pirro and
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production a ...
, among others.
From 1913 on, when the life and works of
Antonio Vivaldi became the subject of his doctoral thesis, he was instrumental in the rediscovery of a number of baroque composers. His biography of
Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widesprea ...
, published after
World War II
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, was the basis for all further research regarding the composer and is still considered an influential and significant work to this day. He was also the first to organize Vivaldi's works; older publications and recordings often cite the Pincherle (or 'P') numbers, although the 'RV' catalogue devised by
Ryom is now almost universally used.
Pincherle was one of the founding members of the
Académie Charles-Cros. He has been president of the French association of musicologists
Société française de musicologie (1947-1955).
Works
* ''Vivaldi : Génie du baroque'' (1948; English translation by Christopher Hatch, 1957)
* ''Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné'' (La Colombe, Paris, 1952)
* ''Corelli et son temps'' (Éditions Le Bon Plaisir, Paris, 1954)
* ''Le Monde des virtuoses'' (Flammarion, 1961)
* ''Le Violon'' (Presses universitaires, 1966)
* ''Tartiniana'' (CEDAM, Padua, 1972)
* ''An Illustrated History of Music (Reynal & Co., New York)
References
20th-century French musicologists
People from Constantine, Algeria
1888 births
1974 deaths
French people of Italian descent
Presidents of the Société française de musicologie
Migrants from French Algeria to France
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