Jean Roy (music critic)
Jean Roy (1916 – 22 September 2011) was a French music critic and musicologist, born in Paris.
Career[]
In 1946, with Armand Panigel, Jean Roy was among the co-founders of the radio program for the RTF then France Musique, a journalist for La Revue musicale of Henry Prunières, for Diapason then le Monde de la musique, secretary of the annual magazine Cahiers Maurice Ravel,[1] whose number 14 of 2011 was dedicated to him. He was vice-president of the "Amis de Francis Poulenc",[2] president of the "Amis de Darius Milhaud",[3] and president of the "Roger Désormière committee".[4]
Publications[]
- 1954: La Vie de Berlioz racontée par Berlioz,[5] Paris, Éditions Julliard, BNF 31800323c.
- 1962: Présences contemporaines : musique française, Nouvelles Éditions Debresse, BNF 37438700h.
- 1964: Francis Poulenc, Paris, Seghers, BNF 374390673.
- 1968: Darius Milhaud, Seghers, BNF 37439847p.
- 1983: Bizet, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, "Solfèges" n°40, 192 p. ISBN 2-02-006512-6.
- 1986: Maurice Ravel : Lettres à Roland-Manuel et à sa famille, Quimper, Calligrammes, (edition, preface and notes by Jean Roy)
- 1989: Ravel d'après Ravel suivi de Rencontres avec Vlado Perlemuter,[6] éditions Alinéa
- 1994: Le Groupe des Six, Le Seuil, 1994, ISBN 978-2-02-013701-0.
- 1997: Samson François, le poète du piano,[7] éditions Josette Lyon, ISBN 2906757853.
- Jean Roy (1999). L'intemporel Robert Casadesus : Pianiste et compositeur (in French). Paris: Buchet/Chastel. p. 121. ISBN 2-28-301799-8. (book with a CD)
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Categories:
- 1916 births
- Writers from Paris
- French music critics
- 20th-century French musicologists
- French biographers
- 2011 deaths