About Georges Servières
Lived 1858 – 1937 (aged 78). Georges Servières was a French musicologist and music critic.
Georges Servières (13 October 1858 – 25 July 1937) was a 19th/20th-century French musicologist and music critic.
Books Richard Wagner jugé En France, Librairie Illustrée, 1890. Tannhäuser à l'Opéra en 1861, Paris, Fischbacher, 1895. Biographies of musicians appeared in collection « Les Musiciens Célèbres », Paris, Librairie Renouard /Henri Laurens, Éditeur : Weber, biographie critique, illustrated with twelve reproductions inset, circa 1910. Gabriel Fauré, 1930 illustrated with 12 engravings inset - Étude critique. Édouard Lalo, s.d. Collection « Les Maîtres de la Musique », Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, Saint-Saëns, 1923 Emmanuel Chabrier 1841-1894, 1912. La Décoration artistique des buffets d'orgues, éd. G. Van Oest, Paris et Brussels, 1928. Cités d'Allemagne, Paris, Charpentier 1902. Dresden, Freiberg and Meissen, collection « Les villes d'art célèbres », 119 engravings, publisher H. Laurens, 1911 - L'Allemagne française sous Napoléon Ier, after unpublished documents from the national archives and the archives of Foreign Affairs, with an extendible chart inset of the annexed territories, Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1904. Text on Gallica Épisodes d'Histoire musicale, Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1914. Divers : Rémiette., Paris, Ernest Kolb, s.d. Roseline - Mœurs contemporaines, with 2 prints in sepia by Boutet, Paris, E. Giraud et Cie, 1885. Text on Gallica
Articles Georges Servières collaborated with numerous magazines including: Le Ménestrel, Le Guide musical, La Revue musicale, La Tribune de Saint-Gervais, La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, La Revue d'art dramatique.
Translations Georges Servières translated German opera librettos into French: Der Freischütz, three-act opera, music by Carl Maria von Weber, translation of the poem by Johann Friedrich Kind, preceded by a history of the work and its French adaptations, Fischbacher, Floury, Paris, 1913. Richard Wagner, Tannhäuser, composer's libretto.
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French musicologist and music critic
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Georges Servières was born on 13 October 1858 in Fréjus.
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Georges Servières died on 25 July 1937 in Paris.
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Georges Servières was a musicologist and music critic.
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Georges Servières was French.
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