Georges Jean-Aubry
Georges Jean-Aubry was the pen-name of Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry, a French music critic and translator. He was a friend, translator and biographer of Joseph Conrad.
Life
Born in Le Havre, Aubry was a friend of several composers, including Debussy and Ravel. In 1918 he met and befriended Conrad. From 1919 to 1930 he lived in London, editing a magazine The Chesterian. This publication was the house journal of the music publisher J & W Chester. In the 1930s he returned to France.Works
French music of today, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1919.La musique et les nations, Paris and London, 1922- 'Lettres francaises de Joseph Conrad', Nouvelle Revue Francaise 135, pp. 108–16Joseph Conrad in the Congo, Boston: Little, Brown, 1926.Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters, 2 vols, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1927.Une amitié exemplaire; Villiers de l'Isle Adam et Stéphane Mallarmé, d'après des documents inédits, 1942Lettres francaises, Paris: Gallimard, 1929Poésies complètes by Jules Laforgue. Paris: Éditions de Cluny, 1943.Œuvres complètes by Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris: Gallimard, 1945.André Gide et la musique, 1945Vie de Conrad, Paris: Gallimard, 1947. Translated 1957 as The Sea Dreamer: a definitive biography of Joseph Conrad, 1957.Valéry Larbaud, sa vie et son œuvre d'après des documents inédits, 1949Lettres d'Alsace à sa nièce Madame Denis by Voltaire. Paris: Gallimard, 1960.