Clercx-Lejeune, Suzanne

(b Houdeng-Aimeries, 7 June 1910; d Lige, 25 Sept 1985). Belgian musicologist. After studying in Italy
and Germany, where her teachers included Besseler at Heidelberg, she took the doctorate at Lige in
1939 with a dissertation on the development of instrumental music in the Netherlands in the 18th
century. From 1940 to 1949 she worked as a librarian at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. In 1945
she became junior lecturer at Lige University, where she was successively appointed lecturer, reader
and in 1966 professor until 1980. For several years she was a committee member of the Socit Belge
de Musicologie and a member of the editorial staff of the Revue belge de musicologie. She also served
on the editorial committee of Acta musicologica (195771) and was chairman of Les colloques de
Wgimont, the annual international congress for ethnomusicology that she founded in collaboration with
Paul Collaer in 1954. In 1957 she founded, in collaboration with Jean Lejeune and Robert Wangerme,
the Festival de Lige. She wrote extensively on 18th-century Belgian music, European music of the 16th
century and the music of Lige in the 14th and 15th centuries. On these subjects she produced some
excellent historical monographs and surveys, as well as detailed studies based on scientific and
aesthetic musical analysis and archival research, all of which reflect her wide reading in music history.

Writings
Essai sur lvolution de la musique instrumentale dans les Pays-Bas au XVIIIe sicle (diss., U. of Lige,
1939)

Les clavecinistes belges et leurs emprunts lart de Franois Couperin et de Jean Philippe Rameau,
ReM, nos.1924 (1939), 1122

Henri-Jacques de Croes, compositeur et matre de musique du Prince Charles de Lorraine (Brussels,

1940)

Les Boutmy: une dynastie de musiciens belges au XVIIIe sicle, Revue belge darchologie et dhistoire
de lart, xiii (1943), 3352

Introduction to Josse Boutmy: Werken voor klavecimbel, MMBel, v (1943)

Grtry, 17411813 (Brussels, 1944/R)

La musique instrumentale du XIIIe au XVIIe sicle (1610), La musique des origines nos jours, ed. N.
Dufourcq (Paris, 1946, 3/1959), 15866

Introduction to Dieudonn Raick and Charles-Joseph van Helmont: Werken voor orgel en/of voor
clavecimbel, MMBel, vi (1948)

Le Baroque et la musique (Brussels, 1948/R)

Pierre van Maldere: virtuose et matre des concerts de Charles de Lorraine, 17291768 (Brussels, 1948)

Le dix-septime et le dix-huitime sicle, La musique en Belgique du Moyen Age nos jours, ed. E.
Closson and C. van den Borren (Brussels, 1950), 145233
Introduction lhistoire de la musique en Belgique, RBM, v (1951), 922, 11431

Dune ardoise aux partitions du XVIe sicle, Mlanges dhistoire et desthtique musicales offerts PaulMarie Masson, i (Paris, 1955), 15770

with R.H. Hoppin: Notes biographiques sur quelques musiciens franais du XIVe sicle, LArs Nova:
Wgimont II 1955, 6392

Les accidents sous-entendus et la transcription en notation moderne, LArs Nova: Wgimont II 1955,
16795

Aux origines du fauxbourdon, RdM, xxxixxl (1957), 15165

Jean de Macque et lvolution du madrigalisme la fin du XVIe sicle, Festschrift Joseph Schmidt-Grg
zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. D. Weise (Bonn, 1957), 6680

Le terme Baroque: sa signification, son application la musique, Le Baroque musical: Wgimont [IV]
1957, 1734

Johannes Ciconia: un musicien ligeois et son temps (Brussels, 1960) [incl. archival documentation,
thematic catalogue and complete edn]

Charles van den Borren (18741966), Liber memorialis: lUniversit de Lige de 1936 1966, ed. R.
Demoulin, ii (Lige, 1967), 23153
Redde Caesari propos de la musique dite flamande, Vie wallonne, xliv (1970), 20828

Fortuna Josquini: a proposito di un ritratto di Josquin des Prez, NRMI, vi (1972), 31557

Ancora su Johannes Ciconia (1335ca.1411), NRMI, xi (1977), 57390

Bibliography
AMe (R. Lenaerts)

Annuaire du corps enseignant et du personnel scientifique (Lige, 1967), 95 only

Hommage Suzanne Clercx-Lejeune, RBM, xlii (1988) [memorial issue; incl. extensive list of writings],
717

B-Aac, dossier C 284209

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