Jean Roy (1916 – 22 September 2011) was a French

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 ...

, born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

Career

In 1946, with

Armand Panigel Armand Panigel (15 October 1920 in Bursa, Ottoman Empire – 28 December 1995 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence aged 75) was a French musicologist and film critic. He was also a historical figure of French radio and television in the fields of classical m ...

, Jean Roy was among the co-founders of the radio program ' for the

RTF RTF may refer to: Organisations * African Union Regional Task Force, the military operation of the RCI-LRA, 2011–2018. * Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, a broadcaster in France, 1949–1964 * Russian Tennis Federation, the national gover ...

then

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 ...

, a journalist for ''

La Revue musicale ''La Revue musicale'' was a music magazine founded by Henry Prunières in 1920. ''La Revue musicale'' of Prunières was undoubtedly the first music publishing magazine giving as much attention to the quality of editing, iconography, and illustrat ...

'' of

Henry Prunières Henry Prunières (24 May 1886, in Paris – 11 April 1942, in Nanterre) was a French musicologist, and international proponent of contemporary art in various forms, including music, dance and painting. He occupies an important place in the art wor ...

, for '' Diapason'' then ''

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'' at the initiative of Jean-Michel Croissandeau, in c ...

'', secretary of the annual magazine ''Cahiers Maurice Ravel'', whose number 14 of 2011 was dedicated to him. He was vice-president of the "Amis de Francis Poulenc", president of the "Amis de Darius Milhaud", and president of the "Roger Désormière committee".

Publications

*1954: ''La Vie de Berlioz racontée par Berlioz'', Paris,

Éditions Julliard Éditions Julliard is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1942 by René Julliard. Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan and Jean d'Ormesson. After Julliard's death in July 1962, the ...

, . *1962: ''Présences contemporaines : musique française'', Nouvelles Éditions Debresse, . *1964: ''Francis Poulenc'', Paris, Seghers, . *1968: ''Darius Milhaud'', Seghers, . *1983: ''Bizet'', Paris,

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'' ...

, "Solfèges" n°40, 192 p. . *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'', éditions Alinéa *1994: ''Le Groupe des Six'', Le Seuil, 1994, . *1997: ''Samson François, le poète du piano'',''Samson François, le poète du piano'' on World Cat
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References

External links

Le Groupe des Six - Une évocation par diverses personnalités, with Jean Roy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Jean 1916 births Writers from Paris French music critics 20th-century French musicologists French biographers 2011 deaths