Jacques Chailley

Jacques Chailley (24 March 1910 – 21 January 1999) was a French musicologist and composer. Biography Chailley’s mother was the pianist Céliny Chailley-Richez (1884–1973), his father the cellist Marcel Chailley (1881–1936). He also took classes of conducting with Pierre Monteux, Willem Mengelberg and Bruno Walter in Amsterdam, while resident in the Descartes House (1935–1936). In this university, he completed his two theses on music, within the framework of the curriculum of Medieval French literature: L’École musicale de Saint-Martial de Limoges jusqu’à la fin du XIe as well as Chansons de Gautier du Coinci. It was from this period that his intense musicological production began with works devoted to Medieval music and musical theory and to the evolution of musical languages, to musical notation, as well as to several composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner. At the same time, he did not neglect the teaching and popularization works (music history, method of piano reading, guide for young pianists, etc.). From 1946 to 1961, he directed the choir “L’Alauda”. In 1969, he was also appointed the second president of the Consociatio internat