Armand Panigel (15 October 1920 in

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, Ottoman Empire – 28 December 1995 in

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aged 75) 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 mu ...

and

film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets ...

. He was also a historical figure of French radio and television in the fields of classical music and cinema.

Early life

After studying at the French high school in

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, he studied law and mathematics at the

University of Montpellier The University of Montpellier (french: Université de Montpellier) is a public university, public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest univ ...

Career

He began his career as

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and

film producer A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, di ...

in Cairo from 1939 to 1944. He became a well-known radio man in the 1950s. He created, produced and hosted on

France Musique France Musique is a French national public radio channel owned and operated by Radio France. It is devoted to the broadcasting of music, both live and recorded, with particular emphasis on European classical music, classical music and jazz. Hist ...

the flagship radio show ' from 1946 to 1984 (in particular with

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, Jacques Bourgeois and Jean Roy), as well as other broadcasts. From 1947 to 1964, he founded and directed the magazine ''Disques'', a review of classical records. At the time,

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commissioned him with indexing, with a view to publishing catalogues, all existing recordings of certain composers, starting with

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and Chopin. In 1946, he became the founding vice-president of the

Académie Charles-Cros An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

. Panigel worked for French television, as

music producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

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for numerous programs: notably ''Au cinéma ce soir,'' which presented a film preceded by a montage of news from the time of its release, and ', which gathered interviews with French directors who were his contemporaries; but also ''Cinéma-Variations'', ''Ce jour-là, j'en témoigne : chroniques du temps de l'ombre 1940-44 (Histoire de la Résistance)'' and ''Portraits de cinéastes et de musiciens'' (1964–82). In 1985, he created the in

, a group of scholarship specialists in his favourite fields and concerned by the transmission of the memory of the great interpretations of the past, thus sharing 60 years of its private collections: more than 200,000 classical records, 40,000 films and 160,000 books on music and cinema. He also pursued a career as a publisher, notably as director of series at ''Régie-Cassette-Vidéo'', where he established ''la Mémoire du cinéma'', and founding director of ''Rééditions d'enregistrements du domaine public'' ( LPs) of classical music, dedicated to ''la Mémoire de la musique''. Panigel worked as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of "Éditions et impressions de la Cinématographie française (1962–64)", président of the Commission d' du cinéma (1975–76), Member of the Board of Directors of the association des auteurs de films, Director of collections of classical music CDs (1993–95). His career was rewarded with his promotion to the rank of officer of the

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. He was the author of several reference books on music and cinema. In 1994, fascinated by new technologies, he began producing and directing

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s, "because it is a three-dimensional work, combining sound, image and text: it is the dream of my life," he declared to the AFP one year before his death.

Publications

* ''Le Guide français du disque'' (Éd. de la Revue ''Disques'', 1948) * ''L'Œuvre de Frédéric Chopin'' (Éd. de la Revue'' Disques'', Archives de la Musique enregistrée UNESCO, 1949) * ''Catalogue général des disques microsillons'' (Éd. de la ''Revue Disques'', 1958–64) * ''Index de la cinématographie française'' (Éd. La Cinématographie française, 1964) * ''Les Écrits de S. M. Eisenstein : le cinéma, son sens, sa forme''''Le Film, sa forme, son sens''
/ref> on livres-cinema.info, (adaptation from Russian and American, , , 1975)

References

External links

Armand Panigel
on Encyclopédie Larousse
La tribune des critiques de disques. Armand Panigel, Antoine Goléa, Jacques Bourgeois...
on YouTube
''Mort d'Armand Panigel''
on ''Libération'' (9 January 1996)
Armand Panigel, le pionnier... et le projet
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Panigel, Armand 20th-century French musicologists French film historians French television producers French television directors French radio presenters French television presenters French publishers (people) Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1920 births People from Bursa 1995 deaths French film critics French expatriates in the Ottoman Empire French expatriates in Egypt