Serge Gut (25 June 1927 – 31 March 2014 on ResMusica) was 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 ...
of Swiss origin.
Biography
A pupil of
Simone Plé-Caussade,
Tony Aubin
Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer.
Career
Aubin was born in Paris. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory), Noel Gallon (counterpoint) ...
and
Olivier Messiaen at the
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
, of Solange Corbin and
Jacques Chailley
Jacques Chailley (24 March 1910 – 21 January 1999) was a French musicologist and composer. Alain Lompech, "Jacques Chailley, musicologue-praticien et infatigable chercheur", ''Consociatio internationalis musicæ sacræ, Musicæ sacræ ministeriu ...
at the Sorbonne, emeritus professor at the
Paris-Sorbonne an composer, Serge Gut was a specialist of
Franz Liszt. He was also a great specialist in German and French music of the 19th and early 20th century, the theory of
musical language and its evolution.
Selected publications
* 1967: ''La tierce harmonique dans la musique occidentale''.
* 1989: ''Franz Liszt'' (Fallois, l'Âge d'homme, 1989, translated into German and expanded in 2009.
* 1975: ''Franz Liszt : les éléments du langage musical''. (Klinsksieck, 1975, reissued in a revised and expanded version in 2008 at Éditions Aug. Zurfluh)
* 1993: Correspondence Liszt-d'Agoult (
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard ...
)
* 1994: ''Aspects du Lied romantique allemand''. (
Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members.
H ...
)
* 1998: Collection of articles ''Musicologie au fil des siècles'' (PUPS), which is the tribute of Paris-Sorbonne University to the person who directed the UFR in music and musicology from 1983 to 1990.
*2014: ''Tristan et Isolde'', Fayard, Paris, .
*2018: ''Les principes fondamentaux de la musique occidentale'',
''Les principes fondamentaux de la musique occidentale''
/ref> Beauchesne, Paris, .
References
External links
Serge Gut
on IdRef
Serge Gut
on Symétrie
Direction of theses
on Theses.fr
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20th-century French musicologists
University of Paris faculty
People from Basel-Stadt
1927 births
2014 deaths
Swiss emigrants to France