Serge Gut
Serge Gut (Franz Liszt, der Unvollendete, documentary by Ute Gebhardt, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 2010)
Born	25 June 1927 Basel Switzerland
Died	31 March 2014(2014-03-31) (aged 86) Suresnes
Education	Sorbonne Conservatoire de Paris
Occupations	Classical composer Musicologist

Serge Gut (25 June 1927 – 31 March 2014^[1] on ResMusica^[2]) was a French musicologist of Swiss origin.

Biography

A pupil of Simone Plé-Caussade, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris, of Solange Corbin and Jacques Chailley at the Sorbonne, emeritus professor at the Paris-Sorbonne a composer, Serge Gut was a specialist of Franz Liszt. He was also a great specialist in German and French music of the 19th and early 20th century, the theory of musical language and its evolution.

Selected publications

• 1967: La tierce harmonique dans la musique occidentale.^[3]
• 1989: Franz Liszt (Fallois, l'Âge d'homme, 1989, translated into German and expanded in 2009.^[4]
• 1975: Franz Liszt : les éléments du langage musical.^[5] (Klinsksieck, 1975, reissued in a revised and expanded version in 2008 at Éditions Aug. Zurfluh)
• 1993: Correspondence Liszt-d'Agoult (Fayard)
• 1994: Aspects du Lied romantique allemand.^[6] (Actes Sud)
• 1998: Collection of articles Musicologie au fil des siècles (PUPS), which is the tribute of Paris-Sorbonne University to the person who directed the UFR in music and musicology from 1983 to 1990.^[7]
• 2014: Tristan et Isolde,^[8] Fayard, Paris, ISBN 978-2-213-68113-9.
• 2018: Les principes fondamentaux de la musique occidentale,^[9] Beauchesne, Paris, ISBN 978-2-7010-2238-3.