Georges Douay Explained

Birth Date:	7 January 1840
Death Place:	Paris
Occupation:	Composer, collector

Georges Douay (7 January 1840 – 18 September 1919) was a French 19th–20th century composer and collector.

Biography

A trendy composer in the years 1860–1870, he was responsible for numerous songs and music of operettas. At his death, he bequeathed the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal a rich collection of over 50,000 artifacts on theater, which included printed materials, 700 engravings and 1500 manuscripts. This collection was the origin of the theatrical direction of the establishment.^[1]

He wrote more than 400 pieces on texts by Francis Tourte, William Busnach or Alexandre Flan, among others.^[2]

Bibliography

• John Denison Champlin, William Foster Apthorp, Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Abaco-Dyne, 1893,
• Frantz Funck-Brentano, Paul Deslandres, La Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 1930,
• Albert Ernest Wier, The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, T.1, 1938,

Notes and References

1. • See details of the collection of the fonds Georges Douay of the BNF
2. http://data.bnf.fr/12995370/georges_douay/ See the list of his compositions on the site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France