Georges de Saint-Foix (2 March 1874 – 26 May 1954) was a French musicologist, connoisseur of Mozart and specialist of the 19th centuryAntoine Albalat, Gustave Flaubert et ses amis, Plon, 1927 page 16, note 1. Accessdate 7 April 2017. and the beginning of the 20th century.
He is the son of the Count of Saint-Foix of the same name, the very same one who in 1858 served as a guide to Gustave Flaubert in Carthage while he was preparing his novel Salammbô.Antoine Albalat, Gustave Flaubert et ses amis, Plon, 1927, pages 12 à 16. Accessdate 7 April 2017. A student at the Schola Cantorum of Paris, he studied the violin and music theory with Vincent D'Indy. A jurist by training, he became one of the most brilliant French musicologists of the first half of the twentieth by making himself known by his studies on Mozart, Cherubini, Bach, Clementi, Gluck and Boccherini.(es) Jaime Tortella (Dir.), Luigi Boccherini : Diccionario de Términos, Lugares y Personas, Madrid, Asociación Luigi Boccherini (no 3), 2008, 484 p. (, OCLC 731149670).
Georges de Saint-Foix has been president of the French association of musicologists Société française de musicologie (1923-1925) and again (1929-1931).
Main works W. A. Mozart : sa vie musicale et son œuvre de l'enfance à la pleine maturité, 1756-1777, essay of critical biography, with Théodore de Wyzewa. . Reissue of Louis Picquot's book,(1804-1870) author of the first biography of Luigi Boccherini entitled Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Luigi Boccherini, suivie du catalogue raisonné de toutes ses œuvres, tant publiées qu'inédites, Paris, chez Philipp (= Camille Prilipp), 1851. with a 45 pages introduction and updated annotations.
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External links Georges de Saint-Foix on Babelio Georges de Saint-Foix on Encyclopédie Larousse MOZART - vol 1, 1756–1777, L'enfant prodige - Le jeune maître at Éditions Robert Laffont, Georges de Saint-Foix on IMSLP In Memoriam Georges de Saint-Foix on JSTOR