Paul-Gilbert Langevin (
Boulogne-Billancourt, 5 July 1933 –
Paris
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, 4 July 1986) was a French musicologist, who was a specialist on
Anton Bruckner,
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
and 19th-century classical music.
History
Paul-Gilbert Langevin was the son of French physicist
Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an an ...
(1872–1946)
and
Eliane Montel (1898–1993), a private teacher at the
Sorbonne
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science department. He started his scientific education at the
Sorbonne
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and then completed it at the
Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
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, obtaining a degree in
physical chemistry
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under the supervision of professor René Freymann.
From a young age, Langevin had a deep interest in classical music, listening to
Anton Bruckner's symphonies on radio recordings during his youth and meeting conductor
Roberto Benzi
Roberto Benzi (born 1937) is a French conductor and former child actor.
Early life
Roberto Benzi was born on December 12, 1937, in Marseille, France.
His parents discovered his musicality when he was very young, and taught him solfège and piano. ...
. Having completed his scientific degrees, he decided to write a thesis under the supervision of
Daniel Charles
Daniel Paul Charles was a French musician, musicologist and philosopher. He was born on 27 November 1935 in Oran (Algeria) and died on 21 August 2008 in Antibes (France).
Biography
He was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conser ...
at the ''Centre Universitaire de Vincennes'' about 19th century Austrian music, focusing on composer
Anton Bruckner and the so-called ''ethnoromantic'' period.
He became a physics teacher at the Sorbonne science department, and then, at the
Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the La ...
, which was created in 1971. During this time, he met musicologists
Harry Halbreich
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, Gustav Kars (father of
Jean-Rodolphe Kars), Jacques Feschotte,
Pierre Vidal,
Marc Vignal Marc Vignal (born 21 December 1933 in Nogent-sur-Marne) is a noted French musicologist, writer and radio producer for France Musique and program manager at Radio France (1975–99), a journalist for ''Harmony'' (1964–84), ''Le Monde de la musique' ...
and
Jean-Luc Caron. Langevin went on to create the Anton Bruckner French society, wrote books on 19th-century symphonic music, edited in ''La Revue Musicale'' and ''L'Age d'Homme'',
and became a music critic in ''
Le Monde de la musique
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It was founded in 1978 by ''Le Monde'' and ''Télérama
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'', edited by
Anne Rey Anne Rey (1944 – 31 January 2012) was a French musicologist, pianist, journalist and educator.
Life
Born in 1944, Rey is the daughter of an architect and a psychoanalyst. She was trained as a pianist and musicologist.
In 1968, she became a fre ...
.
From the 1950s, Langevin focused on classical music, symphonic music, and writing. Specifically, he wrote articles, monographs and books about Anton Bruckner,
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
,
Guillaume Lekeu,
Albéric Magnard
Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard (; 9 June 1865 – 3 September 1914) was a French composer, sometimes referred to as a "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers. Magnard became a national hero in ...
,
Joseph-Guy Ropartz and
Charles Koechlin. He was also interested in works by
Hugo Wolf,
Gustav Mahler,
Arnold Schoenberg,
Franz Schmidt,
Ferruccio Busoni,
Leoš Janáček
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and
Carl Nielsen
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Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he ...
.
He died on 4 July 1986.
[Obituary published by ]Nicola Samale
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Biography
Nicola Samale studied 1959–72 at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Flute ( ...
, after the author's death.
Bibliography
* ''Le siècle de Bruckner'', La Revue Musicale, N°298/299, 1975. (
)
* ''Anton Bruckner, apogée de la symphonie'', L'Âge d'Homme, 1977. (
)
* ''Musiciens de France'', La Revue Musicale, N°324/326, 1979. (
)
* ''Anton Bruckner et l'ethnoromantisme autrichien'', PhD thesis, 1980.
* ''Franz Schubert et la symphonie'', La Revue Musicale, N°355/357, 1982. (
)
* ''Musiciens d'Europe'', La Revue Musicale, N°388/390, 1986. (
)
* ''Anton Bruckner, perspective esthétique et étude analytique en relation avec les éditions critiques'', PhD thesis, 1974.
* ''Traité de musicologie'', directed by
Jacques Chailley
Jacques Chailley (24 March 1910 – 21 January 1999) was a French musicologist and composer. Alain Lompech, "Jacques Chailley, musicologue-praticien et infatigable chercheur", ''Consociatio internationalis musicæ sacræ, Musicæ sacræ ministeriu ...
,
PUF
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, contribution, 1958.
* ''Encyclopédie des musiques sacrées'', directed by Jacques Porte, contribution, 1971.
* ''Larousse de la musique'', directed by
Marc Vignal Marc Vignal (born 21 December 1933 in Nogent-sur-Marne) is a noted French musicologist, writer and radio producer for France Musique and program manager at Radio France (1975–99), a journalist for ''Harmony'' (1964–84), ''Le Monde de la musique' ...
, contribution, 1982. (
)
References
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