Jean Étienne Feytou Explained

Jean Étienne Feytou (1742 in Saint-Martin-lès-Langres – 2 May 1816) was a French musicologist.Feytou became a priest at the death of his wife (1789) and devoted himself to music research. In this capacity, he contributed articles on music for the Encyclopédie méthodique^[1] by French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke.

He became parish priest of Champigny-lès-Langres in 1815 where he died in 1816. He is buried in Champigny cemetery.

See also

• Municipal bulletin No 19 of the commune of Champigny-lès-Langres.
• Article by Lucien Gallion Boisselier "Au siècle des Lumières, un homme hors du commun, Jean-Étienne Feytou", Bulletin de la Société Historique et Archéologique de Langres, 4th trimestre 1983, TXVIII, No 273, (pp. 170-178).

External links

• Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences
• Jean Étienne Feytou on data.bnf.fr
• Jean Étienne Feytou on IdRef

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=9p42uHqRXpMC&dq=Jean+%C3%89tienne+Feytou&pg=PA721 L'encyclopédie méthodique (1782-1832): des lumières au positivisme