Gilles Cantagrel

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Gilles Cantagrel
Born	20 November 1937 Paris, France
Education	École Normale de Musique de Paris Conservatoire de Paris
Occupations	Musicologist Music educator
Awards	Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Chevalier of the Legion of honour Recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Gilles Cantagrel (born 20 November 1937) is a French

Biography

Born in Paris, Cantagrel studied physics, art history and music at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Conservatoire de Paris. He also practices organ and choral conducting. Since 1965, he has been focusing on journalism and communication and writes in magazines such as Harmonie and Diapason.

He became a producer of radio programs in France and abroad and directed the programmes of France Musique between 1984 and 1987. Artistic advisor to the director of France Musique, he was vice-president of the musical commission of the European Broadcasting Union.

He is the author of a series of films on the history of the pipe organ in Europe (4 DVDs). A teacher, lecturer, and animator, he took part in 1985 in the creation of the classical music fair "Musicora".

He was president of the "Association des grandes orgues" of

He has been a lecturer at the Paris-Sorbonne University, lecturer at the Conservatoire de Paris and at various conservatories and universities in France, Switzerland and Canada. He lectures in Europe in North America and participates in international competition juries.

He is

A renowned expert of Leipzig's cantor and his time, he regularly participates in many festivals in France, Switzerland and Quebec.

Publications

Works

• with
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  .
• Guide pratique du discophile (Paris, 1978)
• Dictionnaire des disques (Paris, 1981)
• Bach en son temps (Paris, 1982), new edition, reworked and expanded in 1997
  ISBN 2213600074
  ,
• Guide de la musique d'orgue (Paris, Fayard, 1991); edition, reworked and expanded in November 2012.
• The
  Orchestre national de France
  (with Claudette Douay), Tours, 1994,
• Guide de la mélodie et du lied (dir. with
  ISBN 9782213592107
  ,
• Bach pédagogue, Marsyas (Paris, 1996)
• Le Moulin et la Rivière; Air et variations sur Bach. Les chemins de la musique (in French). Paris:
  Académie Charles-Cros, Prix Catenacci
  de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts).)
• Passion Bach, l'album d'une vie (Paris, 2000), évocation du temps, de la vie et de la création de Jean-Sébastien Bach à la lumière de l'iconographie du XVIIIe
• Bach, Ars oratoria, Bach Pilgrimage (London, 2000)
• Unter dem Zeichen des Wassers, Triangel (Leipzig, 2000)
• Tempérament, Tonalités, Affects. Un exemple : si mineur, Ostinato Rigore (Paris, 2001)
• Musica e gola, Enciclopedia della Musica (Turin, 2002) - French edition Paris, 2004
• Georg Philipp Telemann ou le Célèbre Inconnu (Geneva, 2003-2005), first book in French about this composer
  ISBN 2940310157
• La Rencontre de Lübeck, Bach and Buxtehude (Paris, 2003)
  ISBN 9782220058085
  New edition Paris, 2015
• Les plus beaux manuscrits de la musique classique on Babelio (Paris, 2003)
  ISBN 2-7324-2989-9
• Le Baroque et le Signe (Lyon, 2004)
• Les plus beaux manuscrits de Mozart (Paris, 2005)
  ISBN 2-7324-3266-0
• L'Europe du Baroque, ou le Concert des Nations (Paris, 2005)
• Mozart, Don Giovanni, le manuscrit (prix des Muses, Musicora), Paris, 2005
  ISBN 2732432660
• Buxtehude et la musique en Allemagne du Nord dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe on WorldCat Paris, 2006 (prize
  ISBN 221363100X
• Mozart (Paris, Académie des Beaux Arts, 2007)
• De Schütz à Bach. La musique du baroque en Allemagne (Fayard, 2008)
  OCLC 311743762
• J.S. Bach, de l'angoisse à la création (Paris, Académie de médecine, 2009)
• Les Cantates de Jean-Sébastien Bach (Fayard, 2010)
  ISBN 9782213644349
• J. S. Bach, Passions, Messes et Motets (Fayard, 2011)
  ISBN 9782213663029
• Bach, la Chair et l'Esprit, CD Book with 6 CD (Paris, Alpha, 2011),
• Mozart. Le Quintette en ré majeur (Paris, 2013),
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach et l’âge de la sensibilité (Geneva, 2013).
• Passion Baroque (Fayard, 2015)
  ISBN 9782213685908
• L'émotion musicale à l'âge baroque (Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2016).

Direction or participation in collective publications

• Larousse de la musique,
• Dictionnaire des auteurs,
• Dictionnaire des œuvres,
• Encyclopaedia universalis,
• Grove Dictionary of musicians.

• 
  Gilles Cantagrel with Gustav Leonhardt at Pontaumur in 2004.
• 
  Gilles Cantagrel at the Festival Bach en Combrailles [fr] in 2005
• 
  The Pontaumur organ, replica of that of Arnstadt (Thuringia)
• 
  Foundation Bodmer in Geneva in 2016

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gilles Cantagrel.

• Gilles Cantagrel on France Culture
• Gilles Cantagrel on Fayard
• Gilles Cantagrel on Canal Académie
• Gilles Cantagrel on France Inter
• Conférence Mozart, de Lumière et de Savoir prononcée le 26 octobre 2006 à la Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
• Passion Bach par Lucie Renaud,