Marcel Marnat (born 6 July 1933) is a French musicologist, journalist and

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Biography

After a scientific training, he collaborated in the writing of various cultural newspapers and magazines (''

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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 ''Télérama'' is a weekly French cultural and tel ...

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''). He writes on current affairs, art, cinema, literature and lists new discographic publications. He was also secretary of the Ravel Foundation and compiled a catalogue of works by

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. Marcel Marnat was responsible for programming at

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from 1978 to 1992 and has been working since 1990 with the Radio Suisse Romande-

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. He was awarded the prize for music criticism. His book on

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long l ...

was honoured by the

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and received the prix Pelléas as well as a prize for musical biography of the SACEM at the

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book festival.

Publications

* ''Maurice Ravel'',

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, 1986 * ''Haydn, la mesure de son siècle'', Fayard, 1995 * ''Stravinsky'',

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, 1995 * ''Antonio Vivaldi'',''Antonio Vivaldi''
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Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

References

External links

Marcel Marnat
on Éditions

Notice biographique
on WebThéâtre

on

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Interview with Marcel Marnat (22 February 2003)
on INA.fr
Marcel Marnat
at Diskogs
''Stravinsky et la musique française'', intervention de Marcel Marnat
on Dailymotion
''Joseph Haydn. La mesure de son siècle'' by Marcel Marnat (August 1996)
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