LAFAGE, JUSTE-ADRIEN. - Composer and musicologist, b. in Paris on 28 March 1801 (according to some, the 27th) (according to some, 1805), d. there on 8 March 1862. A pupil of Choron in Paris and of Baini in Rome (1828-29), he was maestro di cappella at St-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris from 1833 onwards; he then undertook study trips to Italy, Germany, Spain and England.
He published various studies, including the Manuel complet de musique vocale et instrumentale (Paris 1836-38), Séméologie musicale (ibid. 1844), Histoire générale de la musique et de la danse (ibid. 1844), Miscellanée musicale (ibid. n.d.), biographical notices on P. S. Mattei, Zingarelli, Baini, Choron, Donizetti, etc.; De la reproduction des livres de plain-chant romain (Paris 1853). In 1859 he founded the periodical Le plain-chant and contributed to many other journals. He also published collections of church music: Motectorum Liber I (1832-35), Liber II (1837); Psalmi Vespertini quaternis vocibus cum organo (1834), etc.
LADISLAO, Saint - Sienese panel painting of the 14th century - Altare, church of the Consolazione.
