Joseph de Marliave 1213611 170826492 2007-11-11T21:38:39Z Cydebot 1215485 Robot - Moving category French military personnel killed in World War One to French military personnel killed in World War I per [[WP:CFD|CFD]] at [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 October 31]]. '''Joseph de Marliave''' ([[1873]]–[[1914]]) was a [[France|French]] [[musicologist]]. He is best known for his book on the [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] [[string quartet|quartets]], which was the most widely-read and quoted book on the subject prior to [[Joseph Kerman]]'s [[1966]] book ''The Beethoven Quartets''. In addition to his work on Beethoven, he published numerous essays on other composers. Some of his book on Beethoven was a translation and paraphrase of the [[1885]] book in German by [[Theodor Helm]]. Marliave was a close friend of [[Gabriel Fauré]], who wrote the preface to the original French edition of the book on the Beethoven quartets. Marliave was also a captain in the French army, and he was killed in action in August [[1914]], shortly after the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]]. [[Maurice Ravel]] memorialized him in his [[Le Tombeau de Couperin]], dedicating the closing [[Toccata]] to him (the sixth part of the piano version, but absent in the orchestral arrangement). == References == * Joseph de Marliave, ''Beethoven's Quartets'', tr. Hilda Andrews. London and New York, 1928. According to Kerman, "This well-known book is embalming critical attitudes of the 1870s, for the great body of it consists of direct translation from Helm." * Joseph Kerman, ''The Beethoven Quartets.'' 1966, New York and London, W.W. Norton & Co. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marliave, Joseph de}} {{France-musician-stub}} [[Category:1873 births]] [[Category:1914 deaths]] [[Category:French musicologists]] [[Category:French military personnel killed in World War I]] [[fr:Joseph de Marliave]] [[nl:Joseph de Marliave]]