Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America

• Published in: Speculum 2013-07, Vol.88 (3), p.889-899
• Main Authors: Huglo, Michel Victor, Atkinson, Charles M., Boynton, Susan, Contreni, John J., Colish, Marcia, Noble, Thomas F. X., Van Engen, John, Cole, Peter, Hexter, Ralph, Frank, Roberta, Kolve, V. A., Wenzel, Siegfried, Pearsall, Derek, Berkhout, Carl T., Robinson, Fred C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Deaths; Huglo, Michel Victor (1921-2012); Musicology; Personal profiles; Varia
• ISSN: 0038-7134; 2040-8072
• DOI: 10.1017/S0038713413002194

An obituary for Michel Victor Huglo who died on May 13, 2012. Huglo was born the first of eleven children on Dec 14, 1921, in Lille. After early education at La Providence, the Jesuit college in Amiens, he entered the Benedictine abbey of Solesmes in 1940, where he studied theology and philosophy (1941-47) and continued to live until 1960. During these years, he laid the foundations of a prolific and profoundly original career in musicology and medieval studies with his work in the multivolume Paleographie musicale, including his catalogue of the manuscript sources for the Roman gradual, Le graduel romain: Edition critique, 2: Les sources (1957). While associated with Solesmes, world renowned as a center for studies in medieval chant and liturgy, he began to acquire a deep--indeed incomparable-knowledge of the medieval manuscripts of music and music theory. The four inventories of more than fifteen hundred manuscripts he prepared for Repertoire international des sources musicales, two devoted to manuscripts of music theory (1986, 1992) and two to manuscripts of the processional (1999), are monuments of modern scholarship that will continue to shape medieval musicology for generations to come.