Gevaért

(zht-vart’), Franco is Auguste, Huy e, near Oudenarde, July 31, 1828—Bru els, Dec. 24, 1908; pupil} of Sommére (pf.) (comp.) at Ghent Cons., taking Gr. prix de Rome for comp.; 1843, organist at the Jesuit church; he prod. 2 operas; lived in Paris (1849-50); then went to Spain and c. ‘‘Fantasia sobre motivos espanoles,” still pop. there, for which he was given the order of Isabella la Catolica; he sent back reports on Spanish music (pub. by the Academy, 1851); he returned to Ghent 1852, prod. 9 operas, 2 of them, ‘‘Georgette’’ and ‘‘Le billet de Marguerite,” with much succe ; in 1857 his festival cantata ‘‘De Nation ale Verjaerdag’ brought him the Order of Leopold; 1867-70 chef de chant Gr. Opéra, Paris; 1871, dir. Bru els Cons. (vice Fétis); created a baron by Belgian Government, 1908; pub. colls. of Italian music, also the valuable fruits of much research in old plain-song. His ‘‘Traité d’ instrumentation” (1863) revised as “Nouveau traité,”’ etc. (1885); he prod. also cantatas, ‘‘Afi a pro Defunct is’ and ‘“‘Super Flumina Babylonis” for male chorus and orch.; overture ‘‘Flandre au Lion,” etc. Geyer (gi- ), Flodoard, Berlin, 1811 —1872; prof., critic, theorist and dram. composer.