GEVAERT, FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTE. - Musician and musicologist, b. at Huysse (Belgium) on 31 July 1828, d. at Brussels on 31 Dec. 1908.

A pupil at the Conservatory of Ghent, he was later organist in the church of the Jesuits. In 1847 he won the Grand Prix de Rome. In 1849-50 he perfected his studies in Paris and undertook important journeys in the various European countries. In 1866 in Paris he was director of the Opéra. In 1871 he returned to Brussels as director of the Conservatory.

He wrote many works for the theatre that had wide resonance, and he was also a writer of theoretical and historical works, among them Histoire et théorie de la musique de l'antiquité (2 vols., Paris 1875-81); Les origines du chant liturgique (ibid. 1892); La melopée antique dans le chant de l'Église latine (ibid. 1895). In collaboration with Gaston Paris he published Les gloires de l'Italie (ibid. 1868), which collects opera pieces by Italian masters of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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BIBL.: F. Dufaur, Le baron F. A. G., Bruxelles 1900; E. Glasson, G., ibid. 1928; T. Dubois, G., in Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, Bruxelles 1930, pp. 113-19.

Silverio Mattei

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