Georges de Saint-Foix (2 March 1874 – 26 May 1954) was a French musicologist, connoisseur of
Mozart and specialist of the 19th century[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
Georges de Saint-Foix has been president of the French association of musicologists
Société française de musicologie (1923-1925) and again (1929-1931).[4]
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.
Georges de Saint-Foix;
Picquot, Louis (1930). Boccherini : notes et documents nouveaux et Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Luigi Boccherini (in French). Paris: Librairie musicale R. Legouix. p. 203.
OCLC2901630. Saint-Foix1930.. Reissue of Louis Picquot's book,[5] with a 45 pages introduction and updated annotations.
^(es) Jaime Tortella (Dir.), Luigi Boccherini : Diccionario de Términos, Lugares y Personas, Madrid, Asociación Luigi Boccherini (no 3), 2008, 484 p. (
ISBN84-612-6846-6, OCLC 731149670).
^(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.