death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
mussy-sur-seine 1952 paris french 1877 jean chantavoine
 jean chantavoine musicologist , biographer
jean chantavoine

jean chantavoine -lrb- 17 may 1877 -- 16 july 1952 -rrb- was a french musicologist and biographer and the secretary general for the conservatoire national supérieur de musique .
chantavoine was born in paris .
he published numerous books and articles , including biographies of beethoven , liszt , saint-saëns and mozart .
in 1933 , he revealed the existence of bizet 's symphony in c , housed in the library of the `` conservatoire '' , in an article in the french periodical `` ménestrel . ''
chantavoine also was the first to publish many of beethoven 's manuscript sketches and letters , for example in his 1903 `` correspondance de beethoven '' .
he died , aged 75 , in mussy-sur-seine .
