He also studied at the Oriental Languages (then École des langues orientales vivantes) where he met Louis Laloy.
This stage music had the honor of the concert at the Société Nationale de Musique on 8 February 1893, and accompanied the revival of the play, by the troupe of the Odeon, on the occasion of the festivities for the inauguration of the statue of Verlaine in the Jardin du Luxembourg on 28 May 1912.
A musicographer (musicologist wasn't used by then), his first article was an obituary in Le Monde illustré dated 1 July 1899 dedicated to the singer Henri Sellier.
There, he published his great study on Henry Du Mont and gave four short articles to the Tablettes de la Schola.
Un musicien en France au XVIIe Henry Du Mont 1610–1684, étude historique et critique.
He participated in a major project launched in 1913 by Albert Lavignac: the Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du conservatoire.
But it was not until 1931, twelve years after his death, that the long article of Quittard on French music, Musique instrumentale jusqu'à Lully (Moyen Âge Renaissance XVIIe) was finally made available.