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French essayist, poet and organizer of festivals
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Jean-Yves Clément
Jean-Yves Clément, the 3 May 2014Jean-Yves Clément, the 3 May 2014
Born (1959-07-21) July 21, 1959 (age 65)
Bourges, France
OccupationWriter, poet, festivals creator
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrench
GenresBiographic essay, poetry
SubjectsComposers, love
Notable works
  • Nuits de l’âme, 2009
  • Les Deux Âmes de Frédéric Chopin, 2010
  • Franz Liszt : La Dispersion magnifique, 2011
  • Glenn Gould ou le Piano de l’esprit, 2016

Jean-Yves Clément (born July 21, 1959 in Bourges) is a French essayist, poet and organizer of festivals.

Biography

Jean-Yves Clément pursued university advanced studies in philosophy (Nietzsche and art) and has a high level in piano and advanced musicology qualifications.

In 1990, he became collection director at the publishing house Le Cherche midi [fr], a post he held until 2012. There he created the collection "Amor fati" and published the unedited works of authors including Alain-Fournier, Nietzsche, and Jules Renard.

Since 1995, he has been the artistic director of the Nohant Festival [fr] and creator of the Prix Pelléas [fr], that rewards "the book with the finest literary qualities devoted to music".

In 2002, he founded the Lisztomanias of Châteauroux, a music festival where world-renowned artists gather. He is the artistic director, as well as Lisztomanias International, an association created in 2012 to export the model and the humanist spirit of Franz Liszt to the world.

In 2011, Jean-Yves Clément was appointed Commissioner General of the "Liszt Year" in France by Frédéric Mitterrand, the then Minister of Culture.

In 2012, Jean-Yves Clément received from the Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand the title of officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

In 2018, he is promoted, by the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen, commander in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Works

Musical Adaptations of his Work

  • The composer Pierre Thilloy set Jean-Yves Clément's aphorisms to music in his work Mysterium conjunctionis (2005) for seven instruments and a mezzo-soprano.
  • Thilloy also wrote a setting of Le Chant de Toi (2014) for soprano and piano.

References

  1. "Jean-Yves Clément : biographie, actualités et émissions France Culture". franceculture.fr. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  2. "Biographie et actualités de Jean-Yves Clément". franceinter.fr. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  3. ^ "Jean-Yves Clément". Lisztomanias (in French). Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  4. "Infos pratiques". 5 March 2017.
  5. "Prix Pelléas". livreshebdo.fr. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  6. "Le festival". lisztomanias.fr. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  7. "Association Lisztomanias de Châteauroux". Lisztomanias (in French). Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  8. "Lisztomanias International". Lisztomanias International (in French). Archived from the original on 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  9. "Nomination ou promotion dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres janvier 2012". culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  10. "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres – été 2018 – Ministère de la Culture". culture.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  11. "Le Passeur Éditeur – De l'aube à midi". le-passeur-editeur.com (in French). Retrieved 2019-01-10.

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