Jacques chailley biography in english translation

Chailley’s mother was the pianist Céliny Chailley-Richez (–), his father the cellist Marcel Chailley (–).

Jacques Chailley 24 March — 21 January was a French musicologist and composer. At the age of 14, he composed a four-voice Domine non sum dignus. He received a classical and musical training of high quality, studying harmony with Nadia Boulanger , [ 1 ] counterpoint and fugue with Claude Delvincourt , [ 1 ] musicology with Yvonne Rokseth who gave him insight into medieval music.

Passionate about Medieval music [ 1 ] for which he devoted much of his musicological activity, he founded in the choir Psalette Notre-Dame in order to revive it.

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It was from this period that his intense musicological production began with works devoted to Medieval music and musical theory and to the evolution of musical languages, to musical notation, as well as to several composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach , Mozart , Schubert , Berlioz , Schumann , Wagner. From to , he directed the choir "L'Alauda".

Jacques Chailley remained in this position until He directed this UER until He thus facilitated the recognition of musicology at the university as an autonomous discipline and enabled many musicians to find a more stable professional situation. His erudition and eclecticism, but also his distinct character and marked opinions, made him one of the principal figures in the post-war French musical life.

Always remained in the post-Debussy French tradition with a modal language close to Ravel , Roussel and Honegger [ 1 ] and firmly opposed the atonality and serialism "avant-gardes" very much in vogue in the post-war years. Jean Gribenski, [ 8 ] who taught at the Sorbonne under the orders of Jacques Chailley, mentions in a chapter of the collective book La vie musicale sous Vichy , [ 9 ] that in collaboration with Henri Rabaud in , he drew up a list of the Jewish students of the Conservatory of Paris:.

The eviction of Jewish pupils takes place in two stages. The first stage starts at the beginning of October Chailley, of his own initiative?