Dominique Jameux (24 December 1939 – 2 July 2015) 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 ...

radio producer A radio producer oversees the making of a radio show. The job title covers several different job descriptions: *Content producers or executive producers oversee and orchestrate a radio show or feature. The content producer might organize music choi ...

and writer.

Biography

Dominique Jameux collaborated with the ' created by on

France Culture France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes (including debates, discussions, and documentari ...

and hosted ''La Musique prend la parole''. He later joined

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 ...

, where he became a producer. He hosted ''Le Matin des musiciens'' between 1978 and 1991, as well as programs such as ''Le Fauteuil de Monsieur Dimanche'' and ''Histoires de musique''. Dominique Jameux founded and directed the magazine ''Musique en jeu'', devoted to music of the twentieth century, which appeared every quarter between 1970 and 1978. He dedicated works to

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

and

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

, which appeared in the series ''Solfèges'' of the

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'' ...

. In 1984,

Fayard Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard ...

published his biography of

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Mont ...

. In 2009, he evoked his professional activity in ''Radio''.

Awards

The (SCAM) prize was awarded to Dominique Jameux in 1994 for the whole of his radio work. In 2006, he was made a Chevalier of the

Ordre du Mérite A suite, in Western classical music and jazz, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/ concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes and grew in scope to comprise up to five dances, sometimes with ...

Publications

*1971: ''Richard Strauss'', Le Seuil, series ''Solfèges'' *1980: ''Berg'', Le Seuil, series ''Solfèges'', *1984: ''Pierre Boulez'', Fayard, series ''Musiciens d'aujourd'hui'', *1986: ''Richard Strauss'', Hachette, series ''Pluriel'', *1996: ''Fausto Coppi, L'Echappée belle, Italie 1945 - 1960'',

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Editions, reissued by Denoël, 2003 *2002: ''L'École de Vienne'', Fayard, *2009: ''Radio'', Fayard, *2012: ''Opéra Eros et le pouvoir'', Fayard, *2014: ''Chopin ou la fureur de soi'',''Chopin ou la fureur de soi''
on Classiquenews.com Buchet/Chastel,

References

External links

''Hommage à Dominique Jameux''
on France Musique
Dominique Jameux
on France Musique
''Hommage : Dominique Jameux, l’affranchi''
on France Musique
''Disparition de Dominique Jameux, voix mythique de France Musique''

''Hommage à Dominique Jameux : six émissions d'archive à la réécoute''
on France Musique

on CAIRN {{DEFAULTSORT:Jameux, Dominique People from Vichy 1939 births 2015 deaths 20th-century French musicologists 21st-century French musicologists French music critics Music historians 21st-century French writers French radio producers Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite