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Brigitte François-Sappey
Portrait of Brigitte François-Sappey
Born21 January 1944 (1944-01-21) (age 80)
Grenoble, France
Education
Occupations
  • Musicologist
  • Radio producer
  • Music educator
  • Lecturer
Awards

Brigitte François-Sappey (born 21 January 1944) is a French musicologist, educator, radio producer, and lecturer.

Biography

Brigitte François-Sappey studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris where she won first prizes of music history, musical analysis, musical esthetics, musicology, and at the École normale de musique de Paris where she graduated for piano teaching.

At the same time, she pursued graduate studies in history at the Paris IV University. After obtaining a bachelor's and master's degrees, she is a Ph.D. student in humanities and social sciences, under the direction of Norbert Dufourcq.

A professor of music history at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1973, she created the class of music culture in 1992, of which she is now an honorary professor. She also founded the classes of art and civilization and history of music at the Conservatoire de Lyon (1979–1982) and musical analysis at the Conservatoire Rameau of the 6th arrondissement of Paris (1976–1979). She has been a visiting professor at the University of Lisbon (1978), the summer university of Versailles (1979–1982) and at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (2003–2009).

She is a member of numerous juries in superior conservatories, the École normale supérieure and several universities, including Paris-Sorbonne.

A producer of concerts and programs at Radio France (1991–1997), she has since been invited at France Musique, France Culture, as well as Radio Suisse Romande.

She regularly participates in scientific conferences and gives numerous lectures in very different places (universities, La Folle Journée of Nantes etc.).

Brigitte François-Sappey is chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and officier of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

Publications

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Brigitte François-Sappey.

In addition to numerous articles and contributions to collective works, her main works deal with French and German romanticism.

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Brigitte François-Sappey playing the pianoforte

Chapters in

  • 150 ans de musique française (Arles, Actes Sud, 1991),
  • Le Quatuor à cordes en France (Paris, Association française pour le patrimoine musical, 1995),
  • D'un opéra l'autre (Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1996),
  • Petite Encyclopédie de la Musique (Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1997),
  • Le Conservatoire de Paris, 1795–1995. Deux cents ans de pédagogie (Paris, Buchet-Chastel, 1999).
  • Comment devient-on universel ? (L'Harmattan, 2005), à propos de Mozart
  • L'Universel (au) féminin (L'Harmattan, 2006),
  • Preface to the reissue of Robert et Clara Schumann, Journal intime, (Buchet-Chastel, 2009) ISBN 9782283023877,
  • Académie des Beaux-Arts « Chopin à Paris »,
  • Le Concerto pour piano français à l'épreuve des modernités, (Actes Sud/Palazzetto Bru Zane, 2015),
  • "Le chant de l'âme chez les musiciens romantiques allemands". Musiques de l'Âme. L'Harmattan. 2022. pp. 49–74. ISBN 978-2-343-25212-4..

Critical edition of musical works

  • J.-F. Dandrieu (Minkoff, Schola Cantorum, Société française de Musicologie/Heugel),
  • A. P. F. Boëly (Choudens, Lemoine, Zurfluh, Bornemann/Leduc, Durand),
  • Olivier Greif, Editions Symétrie, Université Paris-Sorbonne *musicologie et Université Lyon 2).

References

  1. Histoire de la musique en Europe
  2. Clara Schumann
  3. Felix Mendelssohn

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