Jean Mongrédien (19 June 1932 – 16 March 2025) was a French

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

Life and career

Mongrédien was born in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

on 19 June 1932, the son of . A specialist of

music of France In France, music reflects a diverse array of styles. In the field of classical music, France has produced several prominent Romantic music, romantic composers, while folk and popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. Th ...

of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and especially

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

and

religious music Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for Religion, religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as a ri ...

, since 2001 Mongrédien had been professor emeritus at

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it m ...

where he held the chair of

history of music Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal. The origins of music remain highly contentious; commentators often relate it to the origin of la ...

and was dean of the Department of Musicology. Mongrédien died on 16 March 2025, at the age of 92.

Bibliography

*1986: ''La Musique en France: des Lumières au Romantisme (1789–1830)'', Paris, Flammarion, 370 p., *2008: ''Le Théâtre-Italien de Paris 1801-1831: Chronologie et documents'', ''Le Théâtre-Italien de Paris 1801-1831: Chronologie et documents''
Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghai (collab.), Lyon, Symétrie, Venice, Palazzetto Bru Zane, series ''Perpetuum mobile'', 8 volumes, 5384 p.,

References

External links

Jean Mongrédien
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Jean Mongrédien
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''La Musique en France des Lumières au Romantisme'' (compte rendu)
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Jean Mongrédien's discography
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Bibliographie des travaux de Jean Mongrédien
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