French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936).
Born July 5th, 1857 in Bourg-en-Bresse. [ref]
Died August 10th, 1936 at 79 years old in Paris. [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel