Gevaert, François-Auguste

Gevaert, François-Auguste – Danses célèbres des Fondateurs de l‘Opéra français, 1re et 2e Suite – Gluck (disposés en suite d’orchestre)

(Huise, 30 July 1828 – Brussels, 24 December 1908)

(arranged for orchestra)
(1877?)

Christoph Willibald Gluck
(Erasbach, 2 July 1714 – Vienna, 15 November 1787)

François-Auguste Gevaert had a keen interest in early music, which was reflected in his wide-ranging activities as a composer, conductor, musicologist and conservatoire director. In this, he followed in the footsteps of François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1871), his predecessor as director of the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels. During his long tenure as director (1871–1908), Gevaert would crystallise his interest in early music – which had grown during his stay in Paris in the 1850s and 1860s – in musicological publications, historical concerts, score editions, transcriptions and arrangements. With these scores and arrangements, Gevaert was not so much seeking authenticity as aiming to introduce the public, both within and outside the Conservatoire, to an unknown but valuable repertoire.

Gevaert’s publications include Les gloires de l’Italie. Chefs-d’œuvre, anciens et inédits, de la musique vocale italienne aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Répertoire classique du chant français and Classisches Repertorium. Ausgewählte Compositionen alter Meister. In addition to these editions of Italian, French and German vocal music, he also produced orchestrations of opera excerpts in the series Danses célèbres des fondateurs de l’Opéra français: Lulli-Rameau-Gluck….

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