Anne Rey (1944 – 31 January 2012) was a French

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

, pianist, journalist and educator.

Life

Born in 1944, Rey is the daughter of an architect and a psychoanalyst. She was trained as a pianist and musicologist. In 1968, she became a freelancer for the newspaper ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

''. In 1978, she was part of the founding team of the monthly magazine ''

Le Monde de la musique ''Le Monde de la musique'' was a French monthly musical magazine published from 1978 to 2009 with a circulation of 20,000 copies in 2008. It was founded in 1978 by ''Le Monde'' and ''Télérama ''Télérama'' is a weekly French cultural and tel ...

''. There, she worked in collaboration with

Louis Dandrel Louis Dandrel (11 January 1939 – 22 January 2021) was a French sound designer, composer, musician, and journalist. He was in charge of the sound design unit at IRCAM, as well as the studio he created, Diasonic. He was the husband of Fabienne Pas ...

, Francis Mayor, Bernard Lauzanne... She wrote numerous articles on music and a biography of Erik Satie for

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil' ...

. For ''le Monde de la musique'', she proposed to open the editions of the monthly magazine specialized in classic music to

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...

song A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetit ...

, dance, musical theatre. In the 1980s, she worked in the culture department of the newspaper ''Le Monde'', and created the supplement ''Arts et spectacles'', open to rock, contemporary dance, world musics. She left the newspaper in 1995 to teach cultural mediation at the university. In 2006, she published ''Mozart et ses masques'' in the Omnibus series. Rey died in Paris 31 January 2012 and is buried in the

Île d'Yeu Île d'Yeu () or L'Île-d'Yeu, is an island and commune just off the Vendée coast of western France. The island's two harbors, Port-Joinville in the north and Port de la Meule to the south, in a rocky inlet of the southern granite coast, are fam ...

Bibliography

* Anne Rey, '' Erik Satie'', Éditions du Seuil - Series Solfèges, No 35, 1974 (1st edition), 1995 (2nd edition). * Anne Rey, Historical and literary file and selection of texts by various authors for ''

Une vie ''Une vie'' also known as ''L'Humble Vérité'' is the first novel written by Guy de Maupassant. It was serialised in 1883 in the ''Gil Blas'', then published in book form the same year as ''L'Humble Vérité''. It was the basis for the 1958 fi ...

'' by Maupassant, Editions Presses Pocket, 1990 (1st edition), 1998 (2e édition). * Anne Rey, in collaboration with , ''La Littérature policière'', Pocket, Paris, 2003. * Anne Rey, ''Mozart et ses masques'', Omnibus, 2006 (includes ''Vie de Mozart'' by Stendhal, extracts from ''Vies de

Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led ...

, Mozart et Métastase'', ''Mozart, l'homme'' by Alfred Einstein, extracts from ''Mozart, l'homme et l'œuvre'', ''Le Dieu Mozart et le monde des oiseaux''''Le Dieu Mozart et le monde des oiseaux''
on

Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Ga ...

by , ''Mozart on the way to Prague'' by

Eduard Mörike Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 18044 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by ...

, ''Don Juan'' by E. T. A. Hoffmann, extracts from ''Nouvelles musicales'', ''Sa carrière posthume'' by

Jean Barraqué Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué (17 January 192817 August 1973) was a French composer and writer on music who developed an individual form of serialism which is displayed in a small output. Life Barraqué was born in Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1931 ...

, extracts from ''Mozart'' and ''Mozart and Amadeus'' by

Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire ''A Clockwork ...

References

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