Paul-Gilbert Langevin

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Paul-Gilbert Langevin
Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
, Anton Bruckner french society

Paul-Gilbert Langevin (Boulogne-Billancourt, 5 July 1933 – Paris, 4 July 1986) was a French musicologist, who was a specialist on Anton Bruckner, Franz Schubert and 19th-century classical music.

History

Paul-Gilbert Langevin was the son of French physicist Paul Langevin (1872–1946)[1] and Eliane Montel (1898–1993), a private teacher at the Sorbonne science department. He started his scientific education at the Sorbonne and then completed it at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, obtaining a degree in physical chemistry under the supervision of professor René Freymann.[2]

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.[3] Having completed his scientific degrees, he decided to write a thesis under the supervision of Daniel Charles at the Centre Universitaire de Vincennes about 19th century Austrian music, focusing on composer Anton Bruckner and the so-called ethnoromantic period.[4]

He became a physics teacher at the Sorbonne science department, and then, at the

Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, which was created in 1971. During this time, he met musicologists Harry Halbreich, Gustav Kars (father of Jean-Rodolphe Kars), Jacques Feschotte, Pierre Vidal, Marc Vignal and Jean-Luc Caron. Langevin went on to create the Anton Bruckner French society,[5] wrote books on 19th-century symphonic music, edited in La Revue Musicale and L'Age d'Homme,[6] and became a music critic in Le Monde de la musique, edited by Anne Rey
.

From the 1950s, Langevin focused on classical music, symphonic music, and writing. Specifically, he wrote articles, monographs and books about Anton Bruckner,

Joseph-Guy Ropartz and Charles Koechlin. He was also interested in works by Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schmidt, Ferruccio Busoni,[7] Leoš Janáček and Carl Nielsen
.

He died on 4 July 1986.[8]

Bibliography

References

  1. ISBN 9782825108802
    – via Google Books.
  2. ^ The scientific life and work of René Freymann (1909–1995), on Springer website.
  3. ^ Conductor Roberto Benzi, personal website.
  4. ^ Langevin, Paul-Gilbert (1986). Musiciens d'Europe. La Revue Musicale – via IRCAM website.
  5. ^ Anton Bruckner, ce pauvre sot, paper by Alfred and Françoise Brauner, on Cairn website.
  6. ISBN 9782825108802
    – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Ferruccio Busoni et son oeuvre symphonique, paper by Paul-Gilbert Langevin, on rodoni.ch website.
  8. ^ Obituary published by Nicola Samale, after the author's death.
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