Samuel Baud-Bovy

Samuel Baud-Bovy was a Swiss music educator, born in Geneva on November 27, 1906 and died there on November 2, 1986. He studied at the University of Geneva; after studying violin with Closset at the Geneva Conservatoire, conducting with Nilius and music history with Adler in Vienna, composition with Dukas and musicology with Pirro in Paris, and conducting with Weingartner in Basel and Scherchen in Geneva, he returned to the University of Geneva to take his doctorate in 1936. He was an orchestral teacher (1933–73) and a conductor (1942–73) at the Geneva Conservatoire, where he also served as co-principal (1947–57) and principal (1957–70); was also director of studies (from 1931) and an assistant professor (from 1942) at the University of Geneva. From 1961 to 1963 he was president of the International Society for Music Education. He was an authority on Greek folk music, of which he published several collections. In addition to many scholarly articles in music journals, he published the books “La chanson populaire grecque du Dodécanèse” (Paris, 1936), “Études sur la chanson cleftique” (Athens, 1958), and “Essai sur la chanson populaire grecque” (Athens, 1983).

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