Anne Rey (1944 – 31 January 2012) 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 ...

, 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 freelancer for the newspaper ''

Le Monde (; ) is a mass media in France, French daily afternoon list of newspapers in France, newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average print circulation, circulation of 480,000 copies per issue in 2022, including ...

''. In 1978, she was part of the founding team of the monthly magazine ''

Le Monde de la musique ''Le Monde de la musique'' was a French monthly musical magazine published from 1978 to 2009 with a circulation of 20,000 copies in 2008. It was founded in 1978 by ''Le Monde'' and ''Télérama'' at the initiative of Jean-Michel Croissandeau, in c ...

''. There, she worked in collaboration with

Louis Dandrel Louis Dandrel (11 January 1939 – 22 January 2021) was a French sound designer, composer, musician, and journalist. He was in charge of the sound design unit at IRCAM, as well as the studio he created, Diasonic. He was the husband of Fabienne Pa ...

, Francis Mayor, Bernard Lauzanne... She wrote numerous articles on music and a biography of

Erik Satie Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (born 17 May 18661 July 1925), better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire but was an undi ...

for

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...

. For ''le Monde de la musique'', she proposed to open the editions of the monthly magazine specialized in classic music to

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

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song A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usu ...

dance Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre, theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, ...

. In the 1980s, she worked in the culture department of the newspaper ''Le Monde'', and created the supplement ''Arts et spectacles'', open to rock,

contemporary dance Contemporary dance is a genre of Concert dance, dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly stron ...

world music "World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-English speaking countries, including quasi-traditional, Cross-cultural communication, intercultural, and traditional music. World music's broad nature and elasticity as a musical ...

s. She left the newspaper in 1995 to teach cultural mediation at the university. In 2006, she published ''Mozart et ses masques'' in the Omnibus series. Rey died in Paris 31 January 2012 and is buried in the

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Bibliography

* Anne Rey, ''

'', Éditions du Seuil - Series Solfèges, No 35, 1974 (1st edition), 1995 (2nd edition). * Anne Rey, Historical and literary file and selection of texts by various authors for '' Une vie'' by Maupassant, Editions Presses Pocket, 1990 (1st edition), 1998 (2e édition). * Anne Rey, in collaboration with , ''La Littérature policière'', Pocket, Paris, 2003. * Anne Rey, ''Mozart et ses masques'', Omnibus, 2006 (includes ''Vie de Mozart'' by

Stendhal Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, , ), was a French writer. Best known for the novels ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' ('' The Red and the Black'', 1830) and ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' ('' T ...

, extracts from ''Vies de

Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( ; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

, Mozart et Métastase'', ''Mozart, l'homme'' by

Alfred Einstein Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was born in Munich, and fled Nazi Germany after Adolf Hitler, Hitler's ''Machtergreifung'', arriving in the United States by 1939. He is b ...

, extracts from ''Mozart, l'homme et l'œuvre'', ''Le Dieu Mozart et le monde des oiseaux''''Le Dieu Mozart et le monde des oiseaux''
on

Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by G ...

by , ''Mozart on the way to Prague'' by

Eduard Mörike Eduard Friedrich Mörike (; 8 September 18044 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used b ...

, ''Don Juan'' by

E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.Penrith Goff, "E.T.A. Hoffmann" in ...

, extracts from ''Nouvelles musicales'', ''Sa carrière posthume'' by

Jean Barraqué Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué (17 January 1928 – 17 August 1973) was a French composer and music writer. His relatively small is known for its serialism. Life Barraqué was born in Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1931, he moved with his family to P ...

, extracts from ''Mozart'' and ''Mozart and Amadeus'' by

Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, dy ...

References

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