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GASTUE (Gastoué) Amedei (13 III 1873, Paris - 1 VI 1943, Clamart, near Paris) - French musicologist. He studied music in Paris with A. Lavignac, A. Gilman and others. He was an organist at the Saint Jean Baptiste chapel in Belleville. He taught Gregorian singing in the “Schola Kantorum” (since 1898), in the Catholic. Institute (since 1911), as well as at the Higher School of Societies. sciences.In 1904-14, a professor of singing at the Montaigne Lyceum. Since 1905 muses. critic of the newspaper La Semaine litteraire. In 1934-36 and during the Second World War 1939-45 - President of the French Society of Musicology. Ch. Academy of Arts (Paris). Most mean. G.'s works - in the field of churches. music, especially Gregorian singing. Research G. ded. also Byzantine music, the work of composers of the Middle Ages and ars nova (he was the first to discover and publish the essay by Guillaume de Masho). Edited periodically. publications on sacred music. In 1896-1905 he headed the publication "Overview of Gregorian singing" ("Revue du chant gregorien"). The author of the opera Joan of Arc, cantata Christ the Redeemer, orc. and chamber op., choirs, songs, churches. music (masses, motets, etc.).