Joël-Marie Fauquet (born 27 April 1942 at

Nogent-le-Rotrou Nogent-le-Rotrou () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture and is located on the river Huisne, 56 kilometres west of Chartres on the RN23 and 150 kilometres south west of Paris, to which it is l ...

) is 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 ...

Life

Fauquet studied applied arts before devoting himself to musicology and the social history of music. Director of research at the

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...

, his work focuses on 19th century music. He was Vice-President of the French Society of Musicology from 1991 to 1996.Notice on Éditions Symétrie
/ref> Among his works as a musicologist, are the ''catalogue raisonné'' of the work of

Charles Tournemire Charles Arnould Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphoni ...

in 1979, and the reconstitution of the version of Gluck's '' Orfeo ed Euridice'', revised by Berlioz, in 2005.

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