Jules Écorcheville


Jules-Armand-Joseph Écorcheville was a French musicologist and collector.
He studied literature and philosophy, caught interest in music, in musicology, a discipline to which he devoted himself entirely after that period.
In 1912, he was elected president of the Société Internationale de Musique. Engaged in the French army during the First World War, he was killed during the assault of a German trench.
He had devoted the heritage of his parents to the acquisition of a rich collection of ancient instruments and books on music. The collection was dispersed in 1920.

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