Christian Merlin (born 2 March 1964) is a French contemporary

music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

and

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 ...

Biography

Christian Merlin, who holds an agrégation in German and a doctorate in literature, is a musicologist and a lecturer at the

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'' and the magazine '' Diapason'', he contributes to programmes 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 ...

such as ''Le Casque et l'enclume'' and Classic Club. He is also the author or editor of several issues of '' L'Avant-Scène Opéra'', as well as of a book devoted to the

symphony orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...

, documented by long years of acquaintance with instrumentalists and conductors.

Publications

*2002: ''Richard Wagner, mode d'emploi'', éd. ''L'Avant-Scène Opéra'',. *2007: ''Richard Strauss, mode d'emploi'', éd. ''L'Avant-Scène Opéra'', 191 pages . *2007: ''Opéra et mise en scène'', (dir.) éd. ''L'Avant-Scène Opéra'', 120 pages,. *2012: ''Au cœur de l'orchestre'',''Au cœur de l'orchestre''
/ref> Paris,

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, 520 pages, *2013: ''Les grands chefs d'orchestre du XXe siècle'', Paris, Éditions , 424 pages, *2017: ''Le Philharmonique de Vienne'', Paris, Éditions Buchet/Chastel, 690 pages,

References

External links

Christian Merlin : ''Il est injuste qu’on parle si peu des musiciens d’orchestre''
on ''

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'' (7 June 2012)
Christian Merlin
on

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Christian Merlin's articles
on ''Le Figaro''
Christian Merlin, journaliste au Figaro

Chrfistian Merlin
on

''La chronique musique de Christian Merlin''
on

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