Gustave Chouquet

Gustave Chouquet (16 April 1819 – 30 January 1886) was a French music historian, music critic, and teacher of French.

Early life and career Born Adolphe-Gustave Chouquet in Le Havre, he spent six years in Paris studying at the Massin Institute, but devoted almost all his spare time to studying voice and piano and attending concerts at the Paris Conservatory. In 1836, after receiving his degree (bachelier ès lettres), he returned to Le Havre, where his father was a banker. The latter lost his fortune in creating a railroad company (from Paris to the sea), and in 1840 the family moved to the United States. Gustave produced his first essays of music criticism in New York. He was also a professor of French literature and history and published several textbooks of French language instruction. After sixteen years devoted to education, a respiratory ailment caused him to move back to France, where he spent several winters in the warm climate of Le Midi. By 1860 he was permanently in Paris. ), and the words for the Hymne à la Paix ("Hymn to Peace") which won the poetry prize at that year's Exposition Universelle but which was never set to music. He was also on the editorial board of the Dictionnaire des beaux-arts and contributed numerous articles for the first edition of George Grove's A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (published in four volumes from 1878 to 1889).

Chouquet was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1870. He died in Paris.

List of publications Chouquet, Gustave, editor (1846). Leçons et modèles de littérature française; ou, Choix de morceaux en prose et en vers tirés des meilleurs écrivains du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle, par M. Chapsal (entirely revised edition, augmented with biographical and literary notes and a large number of new extracts by the most illustrious contemporary authors). New York: R. Lockwood & Son. View at HathiTrust. Chouquet, Gustave (1854). Easy Conversations in French. New York: R. Lockwood & Son. View at HathiTrust. Chouquet, Gustave (1854). First Lessons in Learning French. New York: R. Lockwood & Son. View at HathiTrust. Chouquet, Gustave (1855). First Readings from Modern French Writers. New York: R. Lockwood & Son. View at HathiTrust. Chouquet, Gustave (1859). Easy Conversations in French. New York: R. Lockwood & Son. View at HathiTrust. Chouquet, Gustave (1867). Conversations and Dialogues upon Daily Occupations and Ordinary Topics … in French Conversation. New York: D. Appleton. View at HathiTrust. Chouquet, Gustave (1873). Histoire de la musique dramatique en France (in French). Paris: Didot. View at Google Books. Chouquet, Gustave (1875). Le musée du Conservatoire national de musique. Catalogue raisonné des instruments de cette collection. Paris: Didot. View at HathiTrust. View at the Internet Archive. Chouquet, Gustave (1880). Les instruments de musique : et les éditions musicales. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. . Chouquet, Gustave (1884). Le musée du Conservatoire national de musique. Catalogue descriptif et raisonné. Paris: Didot. View at HathiTrust. View at the Internet Archive.