Pierre Citron (19 April 1919 – 10 November 2010) was a French musicologist and university professor, a specialist of novelist

Jean Giono Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France. First period Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent a ...

. He was the husband of historian Suzanne Citron.

Biography

Pierre Citron held the degrees of '' agrégé ès lettres'' (1946) and ''

docteur ès lettres Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or '), also termed Doctor of Literature in some countries, is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In the United States, at universities such as Drew University, the degree ...

'' (1960); his main thesis was entitled ''La poésie de Paris dans la littérature française de Rousseau à Baudelaire''. ''Attaché de recherche'' at the ''

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

'' from 1957 to 1960, he later was study director at the '' Institut français de Londres'' (1960–1963), then professor of French literature at the ''Faculté des lettres'' at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1963–1969). From 1970 to 1983, he held the same position at the

New Sorbonne University The Sorbonne Nouvelle University (, also known as Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Sorbonne) is a public liberal arts and humanities university in Paris, France. It is one of the inheritors of the hi ...

. He was responsible for the editions of works by Balzac,

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste wh ...

, Mallarmé and

Giono Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France. First period Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent a ...

. As a musicologist, he wrote popular books on

Couperin The Couperin family was a musical dynasty of professional composers and performers. They were the most prolific family in French musical history, active during the Baroque era (17th—18th centuries). Louis Couperin and his nephew, François Coup ...

and Bartók and, above all, was the prime architect for the publication of the general correspondence of

Berlioz Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the ''Symphonie fantastique'' and ''Harold en Italie, Harold in Italy'' ...

(8 volumes, 1972–2002), a composer whose memoirs he also edited twice (1969 and 1991). His biography of Jean Giono earned him the

prix Goncourt de la biographie The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

in 1990. He also received th
prix Henri Mondor
awarded by the Académie française in 1987 for his ''Édition critique des poésies de Mallarmé''.

Bibliography

*1956: ''Couperin'', Paris,

Seuil Seuil () is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ardennes department The following is a list of the 447 communes of the Ardennes department of France France, officially ...

, Collection Microcosme. Solfèges *1961: ''La poésie de Paris dans la littérature française de Rousseau à Baudelaire'', Paris, Éditions de Minuit *1963: ''Bartok'', Paris, Seuil, Collection Microcosme. Solfèges *1986: ''Dans Balzac'', Paris, Seuil *1990: ''Giono : 1895-1970'', Paris, Seuil *1995: ''Giono'', Paris, Seuil, Collection Microcosme. Écrivains de toujours *2010: ''Renaissance du village de Montjustin'', Paris, Edition Petite Capitale

External links

Obituary
on the site of the Sorbonne
Pierre Citron, Dans Balzac (compte rendu)
on Persée
Pierre Citron
on the site of the Académie française {{DEFAULTSORT:Citron, Pierre Writers from Paris 1919 births 2010 deaths 20th-century French musicologists Prix Goncourt de la Biographie winners Bartók scholars