Henry Prunières (24 May 1886, in

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– 11 April 1942, in

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) 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 ...

, and international proponent of contemporary art in various forms, including music, dance and painting. He occupies an important place in the art world between the wars, particularly with regard to music. His major contribution ''

La Revue musicale ''La Revue musicale'' was a music magazine founded by Henry Prunières in 1920. ''La Revue musicale'' of Prunières was undoubtedly the first music publishing magazine giving as much attention to the quality of editing, iconography, and illustrat ...

,'' a monthly musical periodical which he founded in 1920 and left in 1939, is still a reference in the Western musical world. Prunières received his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1913, where he wrote his dissertations on Italian music in France before

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( – 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court o ...

and ''

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'' in France before Lully. Between 1924 and 1935, he worked as the music correspondent at the ''

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''. He was also secretary and chairman of the International Music Society. Prunières was an important figure in the early 20th-century renewal of interest in Lully and his music.

Major works

* ''Lully''. Paris, 1910 * ''La musique de la chambre et l'ecurie''. Paris, 1912 * ''L'Opéra italien en France avant Lulli''. Paris, 1913 * ''Le Ballet de cour en France avant Benserade et Lulli''. Paris, 1913''Le Ballet de cour en France avant Benserade et Lulli'', 1913
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. * ''Claudio Monteverdi''. Paris, 1924 * ''La vie et l'oeuvre de Claudio Monteverdi''. Paris, 1924 * ''Le vie illustre et libertine de Jean-Baptiste Lully''. Paris, 1929 * ''Cavalli et l'opera venitien au XVIIe siecle''. Paris, 1931 * ''Nouvelle histoire de la musique''. Paris, 1934–6 * ''J-B. Lully: Oeuvres completes''. Paris, 1930–39, 10 vols.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prunieres, Henri Writers from Paris 1886 births 1942 deaths 20th-century French musicologists Knights of the Legion of Honour