Georges Jean Aubry

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Name Georges Jean-Aubry Role Biographer		Died 1950, Paris, France
Books The sea dreamer, An Introduction to French Music, French music of today, Eugene Boudin, Joseph Conrad in the Congo Similar People Joseph Conrad, Jacques Darras, Manuel de Falla

Georges Jean-Aubry (also Gérard Jean-Aubry, or G Jean-Aubry) was the pen-name of Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry (1882-1950), a French music critic and translator. He was a friend, translator and biographer of Joseph Conrad.

Life

Born in Le Havre, Aubry was a friend of several composers, including Debussy and Ravel. In 1918 he met and befriended Conrad. From 1919 to 1930 he lived in London, editing a magazine published by a musical instrument-making firm, The Chesterian. In the 1930s he returned to France.

Works

French music of today, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1919.

La musique et les nations, Paris and London, 1922

'Lettres francaises de Joseph Conrad', Nouvelle Revue Francaise 135 ( I December 1924), pp. 108–16

Joseph Conrad in the Congo, Boston: Little, Brown, 1926.

Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters, 2 vols, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1927.

Une amitié exemplaire; Villiers de l'Isle Adam et Stéphane Mallarmé, d'après des documents inédits, 1942

Lettres francaises, Paris: Gallimard, 1929

(ed.) Poésies complètes by Jules Laforgue. Paris: Éditions de Cluny, 1943.

(ed. with Henri Mondor) Œuvres complètes by Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris: Gallimard, 1945.

André Gide et la musique, 1945

Vie de Conrad, Paris: Gallimard, 1947. Translated 1957 as The Sea Dreamer: a definitive biography of Joseph Conrad, 1957.

Valéry Larbaud, sa vie et son œuvre d'après des documents inédits, 1949

(ed.) Lettres d'Alsace à sa nièce Madame Denis by Voltaire. Paris: Gallimard, 1960.

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