Yves-René-Jean Gérard (6 January 1932 – 6 October 2020)^[1] was a Frenchmusicologist.

Born on 6 January 1932 inChâlons-sur-Marne,^[1] Yves Gérard studiedphilosophy at theNancy-Université from 1949 to 1955. Following his graduation, he studied thepiano for three years at the Nancy Conservatory. From 1955 to 1956 he studied at theSorbonne under composer, musicologist and theoreticianJacques Chailley. At theConservatoire de Paris he studied music history, musicology and aesthetics. In 1956, he won first prize for music history, and in 1958 for aesthetics.^[2] He succeeded his teacher,Norbert Dufourcq, as professor ofmusic history and musicology at the Conservatoire in 1975, and retained this post until he retired in 1997.^[3] From 1979 to 1982, Gérard served as president of the French association of musicologistsSociété Française de Musicologie,^[4] and he was the French representative to the International Musicological Society from 1982 until 1992.^[3] Gérard taught atLaval University as visiting professor from 1984 to 1986, and theUniversity of Maryland in 1987.^[2]

Gérard is known especially for his scholarly works on the composersLuigi Boccherini andCamille Saint-Saëns. He has also made significant contributions to the study of thechamber music of late-18th centuryItaly,Spain, andAustria, and toFrench music of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. TheGrove Dictionary of Music and Musicians writes that his major work has been on the writings ofHector Berlioz.^[3] In 1983 he co-edited volume 4 of Berlioz'sCorrespondance générale,^[5] and in 1996 he co-edited Volume 1 of the composer'sCritique musicale.^[6]

Gérard died of cancer on 6 October 2020, aged 88.^[1]

• "L'Art pour la beauté: Samson et Dalila de Saint-Saëns",La Musique française, de Berlioz à Debussy (Paris, 1991), 25–32
• "La Bibliothèque musicale d'un amateur éclairé de Madrid: la duchesse-comtesse de Benavente, duchesse d'Osuna (1752–1834)",RMFC, iii (1963), 179–8.
• "Luigi Boccherini",Einzeldrucke vor 1800,RISM, A/I/i (1971), pp. 322–349.
• "Luigi Boccherini and Madame Sophie Gail",The Consort, xxiv (1967), 294–309
• "Notes sur la fabrication de la viole de gambe et la manière d'en jouer d'après une correspondance inédite de Jean-Baptiste Forqueray au Prince Frédéric-Guillaume de Prusse",RMFC, ii (1961–2), pp. 165–172.
• "L'œuvre de Saint-Saëns: éclats et ombres de la célébrité",150 ans de musique française: Lyons 1991, 97–103
• "Le Rossignol: le paradoxe des codes détournés",Stravinsky-Schoenberg (Paris, 1997), pp. 52–58.
• "Saint-Saëns et l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo",L'Opéra de Monte-Carlo au temps du prince Albert Ier de Monaco, ed. J.M. Nectoux (Paris, 1990), pp. 29–36.^[2]
• Thematic, Bibliographical and Critical Catalogue of the Works of Luigi Boccherini (London, 1969).^[2]

• C. Saint-Saëns: regards sur mes contemporains (Arles, 1990)
• Le Conservatoire de Paris, 1795–1995: des Menus-Plaisirs à la Cité de la Musique (Paris, 1996), (with A. Bongrain and M.-H. Coudroy-Saghai)
• Hector Berlioz: correspondance générale, iv (Paris, 1983), (with P. Citron and H. Macdonald)
• Hector Berlioz: la critique musicale, 1823–1863 (Paris, 1996–), (with H.R. Cohen)
• Lettres de Henri Duparc à Ernest Chausson, RdM, xxxviii (1956), pp. 125–146.
• Lettres de compositeurs à Camille Saint-Saëns (Lyon, 2009), (with Eurydice Jousse)

• Luigi Boccherini: Sei Quintetti con Chitarra (Paris, 1974)

• Blay, P. and R. Legrand (editors).Sillages musicologiques: hommages à Yves Gérard (Paris, 1997)
• Mussat, M.-C.,J. Mongrédien and J.-M. Nectoux (editors).Echos de France et d’Italie: liber amicorum Yves Gérard (Paris, 1997)
• Spieth-Weissenbacher, Christiane; Jean Gribenski.""Gérard, Yves(-René-Jean)"".Grove Music Online. Retrieved20 May 2008. (subscription access)

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• People from Marne (department)
• 20th-century French musicologists
• 2020 deaths
• Nancy-Université alumni
• 21st-century French musicologists
• Deaths from cancer in France
• Presidents of the Société française de musicologie

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