Gédalge, André
(1856–1926)
ANDRÉ GÉDALGEGÉDALGE, ANDRÉANDRÉ GÉDALGE [* 1856-† 1926] Though he intended to publish three volumes on counterpoint and fugue, the Traité de la fugue by André Gédalge remains incomplete. Only De la fugue d'école [1904] appeared, despite the fact that Gédalge lived for two more decades and attained greater prominence owing to his appointment in 1905 as a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Paris Conservatoire. A culmination of nineteenth-century contrapuntal pedagogy, with borrowings…