Louis Émile Gratia


Louis Émile Georges Gratia was a French musician, composer, musicologist, musical editor and arranger.

Life

Gratia was born in Lunéville,. His father was the painter Charles Louis Gratia who, after his return to France in 1867, settled for a time in Lunéville and remarried.
Gratia specialized in music education, making editions of piano music and arrangements for effective piano pedagogy and acquisition of music theory. His work won the attention and support of important French musicians and teachers like organist Charles-Marie Widor and pianist Isidor Philipp.
He died in Clichy, in the suburbs of Paris.

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