Rémy Stricker (3 January 1936 – 19 November 2019) was a French pianist, music educator,
radio producer
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*Content producers or executive producers oversee and orchestrate a radio show or feature. The content producer might organize music cho ...
,
musicologist
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and writer.
Biography
Born in
Mulhouse
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, Rémy Stricker studied the piano with
Yvonne Lefébure
Yvonne Lefébure (29 June 1898, Ermont – 23 January 1986, Paris) was a French pianist and teacher.
Born in Ermont, she studied with Alfred Cortot at the Conservatoire de Paris, taking a ''premier prix'' in piano and numerous other subjects. She ...
, then at the
Conservatoire de Paris
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. From 1964 to 1969, along
Jean-Pierre Armengaud and
Michel Capelier, he seconded
Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy in the presentation of the , pedagogical concerts-lectures given at the
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
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. Before being a professor of musical esthetics at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1971 to 2001, Rémy Stricker was a radio producer for
France Musique
France Musique () is a French national public radio channel owned and operated by Radio France. It is devoted to the broadcasting of music, both live and recorded, with particular emphasis on classical music and jazz.
History
The channel was lau ...
and
France Culture
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Radio France () is the French national public radio broadcaster.
Stations
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*France Inter — Radio France's "generalist ...
from 1962 to 1997.
In 2004, he was awarded the prix spécial du jury of the
Prix des Muses for his book ''Berlioz dramaturge''.
Selected publications
*1969: ''Musique du Baroque'',
Gallimard, .
*1980: ''Mozart et ses opéras : fiction et vérité'', series ''Bibliothèque des Idées'' , Gallimard, 355p.
*1993: ''Franz Liszt, les ténèbres de la gloire'', series ''Bibliothèque des Idées'', NRF – Gallimard, 482 p.
*1996:
*1996: ''les Mélodies de Duparc'',
Actes Sud
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...
.
*1999: ''Georges Bizet : 1838-1875'', Gallimard, Paris, 377 p. .
Georges Bizet
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*2001: ''Le dernier Beethoven'', series ''Bibliothèque des Idées'', Gallimard, 328 p.
*2003: ''Berlioz dramaturge'', series ''Bibliothèque des Idées'', Gallimard, 664 p.
Bibliography
* Laurent Herz, ''Les Musigrains, une institution pédagogique et musicale (1939–1986)'', Éditions L'Harmattan
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, Paris, 2013
References
External links
Rémy Stricker
on Babelio
Rémy Stricker
on Symétrie
Rémy Stricker
at Gallimard
at Cairn info
Rémy Stricker
at Encyclopédie Larousse
Rémy STRICKER
at Actes Sud
Rémy Stricker, musicologue: ''Chez elle, l'humilité ouvre la voie à l'humanité''
on '' La Croix'' (6 June 2009)
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1936 births
2019 deaths
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
French radio producers
20th-century French musicologists
21st-century French musicologists
French bibliographers
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Musicians from Mulhouse
20th-century French male classical pianists
20th-century French classical pianists
21st-century French male classical pianists
21st-century French classical pianists
Mass media people from Mulhouse