Father Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle (March 24, 1727, in Nédonchel – February 9, 1805, in Fontainbleau) was a French religious prosecutor of the convent of Petits-Augustins de Paris, surveyor and topographer, passionate about music and mechanics and inventor of a musical recording process.
He published his treatise in 1775 La Tonotechnie ou l'Art de noter les cylindres, et tout ce qui est susceptible de notage dans les instruments de concerts méchaniques sur la façon de noter le picotage des rouleaux d'orgues mécaniques in English Tonotechnie or the Art of notating cylinders, and everything that is capable of noting in mechanical concert instruments on how to note the pecking of mechanical organ rolls. He argued that automated music would give listeners direct contact with the composer's intentions.
His brother Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle (1734–1814), also an Augustinian monk in Paris, was a renowned entomologist who, who commissioned by Jean-Baptiste-François Gigot d'Orcy published between 1779 and 1792 a publication illustrating the butterflies of Europe in 28 notebooks divided into 8 volumes of nearly 3000 drawings engraved then painted by hand which sold by subscription in 250 copies under the title: "Butterflies of Europe painted from nature by M.Ernst, engraved by M.Gérardin, and colored under their direction, described by R.P. Engramelle, Augustinian monk from the Saint Germain district". This work also illustrates lepidoptera from the cabinets of D'Orcy's fellow collector Johann Christian Gerning.
Works Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle La tonotechnie, ou l'art de noter les cylindres, et tout ce qui est susceptible de notage dans les instrumens de concerts mechaniques : ouvrage nouveau (via Internet Archive) (Tonotechnie or the art of notating cylinders) Paris: Delaguette/ Basan & Poignant, 1775 (Facsimile editions Hermann, 1993). He also collaborated on L'art du facteur d'orgues (The Art of the Organ-Builder), by Dom Bedos de Celles, 1766–1778. Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle He contributed to Papillons d'Europe, peints d'après nature (via Internet Archive) (Butterflies of Europe painted from nature) by M.Ernst, engraved by M.Gérardin, and colored under their direction, described by R.P. Engramelle, Augustinian monk from the Saint Germain district, in Paris at Delaguette/ Basan & Poignant, 1779–1792.Several other illustrators contributed most notably Maria Eleonora Hochecker.
References
Dance S. Peter And Hancock E. Geoffrey,Butterflies, Moths and Other Insects (Classic Natural History Prints) Studio Editions, 1991 Groll, E. K. (2017). Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. Online database, version 8. Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg Girardin, M. P. 2015: Découverte d'une planche ayant longtemps joué l'Arlésienne : la planche VI du 4 e supplément à l'ouvrage « Papillons d'Europe, peints d'après nature » initié par Jean-Jacques ERNST et le Révérend Père Jacques Louis Florentin ENGRAMELLE. Alexanor : Revue française de Lépidoptérologie , Paris 26 (6), S. 325–348 Homberg, R., 1953 Some unknown plates in Ernst & Engramelle's Papillons d'Europe peints d'apres nature, 1779-1793. Journal of the Society for the bibliography of natural history, v. 3 (Dec. 1953), p. 28-33.
External links
Jen Yves Cordier Histoire des noms Francais de Papillons