Soubies, Albert
Soubies, Albert
Soubies, Albert, French writer on music; b. Paris, May 10, 1846; d. there, March 19, 1918. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, and about the same time became a pupil of Savard, Bazin, and Guilmant at the Paris Cons. In 1876 he became music critic for Le Soir and in 1885 began to write for the Revue de l’Art Dramatique. In 1874 he revived the famous old Almanack Duchesne (publ. between 1752 and 1815), reissuing it as Almanack des Spectacles (43 vols. publ. to 1914). His articles were publ. under the name B. de Lamange.
Writings
(all publ. in Paris): With C. Malherbe, L’oeuvre dramatique de Richard Wagner (1886); with H. de Curzon, Précis de l’histoire de l’Opéra-Comique (1887); Une première par jour: Causeries sur le théâtre (1888); with C. Malherbe, Wagner et Meyerbeer: Documents inédits (1891); with C. Malherbe, Histoire de l’Opéra-Comique: La seconde Salle Favart (1892); with C. Malherbe, Mélanges sur Richard Wagner (1892); Soixante-sept ans à l’Opéra en une page (1893); Musique russe et musique espagnole (1894); La Comédie-Française depuis l’époque romantique (1895); Histoire de la musique dans les différents pays d’Europe (1895); Histoire du théâtre-lyrique 1851–1870 (1899); with H. de Curzon, Documents inédits sur le Faust de Gounod (1912); Massenet historien (1913).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire