Michel-Rostislav Hofmann (28 August 1915 – 19 March 1975 in Paris) was a Franco-Russian writer,
musicologist and translator.
A translator of Russian into French, notably from
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
,
Ivan Turgenev and
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
. He was also a musicologist and connoisseur of
Russian music
Music of Russia denotes music produced from Russia and/or by Russians. Russia is a large and culturally diverse country, with many ethnic groups, each with their own locally developed music. Russian music also includes significant contributions ...
.
His name is often distorted in bibliographic sources : « M. et R. Hofman », « Borislav Hoffman » etc.
Works
*1946: ''Un siècle d'opéra russe : de Glinka à Stravinsky''.
*1953: ''Petite histoire de la musique russe''.
*1953: ''Serge Lifar et son ballet''.
*1957: ''La Musique en Russie : des origines à nos jours''.
*1958: ''Rimski-Korsakov : sa vie, son œuvre''.
*1959: ''Histoire de la musique des origines à nos jours''
*1959: ''Tchaïkovski'',
Éditions du Seuil (''Solfèges'' series, No. 11)
*1962: ''Sur le sentier de la musique''.
*1963: ''Dimitri Chostakovitch, l'homme et son œuvre''.
*1964: ''Serge Prokofiev, l'homme et son œuvre''.
*1964: ''La Vie de Moussorgski''
*1965: ''La Vie de Schubert''
*1965: ''Les Grandes Figures slaves de Russie''.
*1965: ''La Vie des grands musiciens russes''.
*1966: ''Musique mon amie''.
*1967: ''Les Grands romanciers russes''.
*1968: ''Histoire de la musique russe: des origines à nos jours'' (Éditions Buchet/Chastel)
*1973: ''Petite histoire de la musique russe : des origines à Stravinsky'',
''Petite histoire de la musique russe : des origines à Stravinsky''
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References
External links
Michel-Rostislav HOFMANN
on Encyclopédie Universalis
Michel-Rostislav Hofmann
on Diskogs
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Russian writers in French
1915 births
1975 deaths
Russian–French translators
20th-century French musicologists
French biographers
20th-century translators