Amédée Gastoué

Amédée Henri Gustave Noël Gastoué (19 March 1873 – 1 June 1943) was a French musicologist and composer. Biography A Kapellmeister at the , professor of gregorian chant at the Schola Cantorum of Paris, Gastoué was particularly interested in Byzantine music, that of the Middle Ages and Armenian musical art. He also taught choral chant and Medieval music at the Institut catholique de Paris, the Collège Stanislas and the Lycée Montaigne. He was president of the (1934–1936) and remains known for his studies and writings. He was raised to the dignity of Commander of the Pontifical Order of Pope Gregory I by Pope Pius X. Gastoué is the great-great-grandfather of Emmanuel Trenque, himself an organist and choral conductor. Studies List according to the « Principaux ouvrages du même auteur » of Graduel et l’antiphonaire romains, histoire et description (fac-similé) * Le Graduel et l’antiphonaire romains, histoire et description, Jeanin frères, Lyon 1913, 302 p. (fac-similé). * Histoire du chant liturgique à Paris I, Dès origines à la fin des temps carolingiens, Poussielgue, Paris, 86 p. * Cours théorique et pratique de plain-chant romain grégorien, Bureau de l’édition de la Schola cantorum,