Louis Émile Gratia

Louis Émile Georges Gratia (17 September 1878 – 31 October 1962) was a French musician, composer, musicologist, musical editor and arranger. Life Gratia was born in Lunéville, (Meurthe-et-Moselle). His father was the painter Charles Louis Gratia (1815–1911) who, after his return to France in 1867, settled for a time in Lunéville and remarried. Gratia specialized in music education, making editions of piano music and arrangements for effective piano pedagogy and acquisition of music theory. His work won the attention and support of important French musicians and teachers like organist Charles-Marie Widor and pianist Isidor Philipp. He died in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), in the suburbs of Paris. Works Writings * Étude du piano: Comment réaliser un maximum de progrès à l’aide d’un minimum de travail (Piano study: how to make the most progress with the least work). Preface by Charles-Marie Widor (Paris: Delagrave 1914). * Instruments de musique du XXe siècle: Les conséquences pédagogiques, professionnelles, sociales, artistiques (Musical instruments of the 20th century; pedagogical, professional, social, and artistic consequences) (Paris: Heugel, 1931). * Répertoire pratique du pianiste: