Bergmans, Paul (Jean Etienne Charles Marie)

Bergmans, Paul (Jean Etienne Charles Marie), Belgian librarian and musicologist; b. Ghent, Jan. 23, 1868; d. there, Nov. 14, 1935. He was educated at the Univ. of Ghent; also took courses in piano and violin at the Ghent Cons., and received private instruction in theory from Waelput. From 1885 until his death he wrote music criticism for Flandre Ibérale; in 1892 he became assistant librarian and in 1919 chief librarian at the Univ. of Ghent; in 1919 he also became the first holder of its chair in musicology, the first in a Belgian univ. In 1920 he was elected a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique.

Writings

Pierre Josephe Le Blau: Carillonneur de la ville de Gand au XVIIFsiècle (Ghent, 1884); Hendrick Waelput (Ghent, 1886); Variétés musicologiques (Ghent, 1891–1901; Antwerp, 1920); Analecte belgiques (Ghent, 1896); Les imprimeurs belges à l’étranger (Ghent, 1897; 2^nd éd., 1922); La vie musicale gantoise au XVIII^e siècle (Ghent, 1897); L’organiste des archiducs Albert et Isabelle: Peter Philips (Ghent, 1903); Nicolas Maiscocque: Musicien montois due XVII^e siècle (Ghent, 1909); Mélanges iconographiques, bibliographiques et historiques (Ghent, 1912); Les musiciens de Courtrai et du Courtraisis (Ghent, 1912); La biographie du compositeur Corneille Verdonck (Brussels, 1919); Henri Vieuxtemps (Turnhout, 1920); Le baron Limnander de Nieuwenhove (Brussels, 1920); Quatorze lettres inédites du compositeur Philippe de Monte (Brussels, 1921); Tielman Susato (Antwerp, 1923); Les origines belges de Beethoven (Brussels, 1927); Une famille de musiciens belges du XVIII^e siècle: Les Loeïllet (Brussels, 1928); La typographie musicale en Belgique au XVI^e siècle (Brussels, 1930).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire