Isabelle Cazeaux

Isabelle Anne Marie Cazeaux (February 24, 1926 – September 13, 2023) was a French-American musicologist.

Life

Isabelle Anne-Marie Cazeaux was born on February 24, 1926, in New York,

She studied at Hunter College, and at Smith College where she studied with Alfred Einstein. She studied in France, at the Conservatoire de Paris under the direction of Norbert Dufourcq, at the École normale de musique de Paris with Yvonne Astruc, at the Sorbonne with Paul-Marie Masson, and at the École pratique des hautes études with Solange Corbin. She obtained a Master of Science in Library Science in 1959 from Columbia University, then a doctorate in musicology in 1961 with a thesis on "The Secular Music of Claudin de Sermisy" under the supervision of Paul Henry Lang and Erich Herzmann,.

She also took private music lessons, including violin lessons with Anselme Fortier, Ivan Galamian, Antonio Brosa and Nicolas Averino, piano and composition lessons with Kyriena Ziloti and Alexei Haieff, as well as organ and piano lessons.

She began her career working at the New York Public Library as a music cataloguer between 1957 and 1963. From 1963 until her retirement in 1992, she was a member of the music faculty at Bryn Mawr College, where she headed the department from 1978. She also taught at the Manhattan School of Music between 1969 and 1982.

As a researcher, she is a specialist in French music and literature of the Renaissance and the Belle Époque, in particular the opera and songs of Claudin de Sermisy. She has also translated French documents and memoirs from the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.

She died on September 13, 2023, in New York City,