Jean-Yves Clément Explained
| Jean-Yves Clément |
| Birth Date: | 21 July 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Bourges, France |
| Occupation: | Writer, poet, festivals creator |
| Language: | French |
| Nationality: | French |
| Notableworks: | - 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
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| Genres: | Biographic essay, poetry |
| Subjects: | Composers, love |
Jean-Yves Clément (born July 21, 1959 in Bourges) is a French essayist, poet and organizer of festivals.[1] [2]
Biography
Jean-Yves Clément pursued university advanced studies in philosophy (Nietzsche and art) and has a high level in piano and advanced musicology qualifications.[3]
In 1990, he became collection director at the publishing house, 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[4] of the and creator of the, that rewards "the book with the finest literary qualities devoted to music".[5]
In 2002, he founded the Lisztomanias of Châteauroux, a music festival where world-renowned artists gather.[6] He is the artistic director,[7] as well as Lisztomanias International,[8] 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.[9]
In 2018, he is promoted, by the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen, commander in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[10]
Works
- Propos-exutoires, Paris,, 1990
- De l’aube à midi (From Dawn to Noon), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 1999
- Variations Chopin : Quarante-huit préludes (Chopin Variations: Forty-eight Preludes), Vendœuvres, Lancosme éditeur, 2005
- 111 notes d’amour : Variations (111 Love Notes: Variations), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2008
- Nuits de l’âme (Nights of the Soul), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2009
- Les Deux Âmes de Frédéric Chopin (The Two Souls of Frederic Chopin), first edition Paris,, 2010 ; second edition Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2017
- Franz Liszt : La Dispersion magnifique (Franz Liszt: The Magnificent Dispersion), Arles, Actes Sud, 2011
- Le Chant de toi : Ode (The Song of You: Ode), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2012
- La Raison des sortilèges : Entretiens sur la musique (with Michel Onfray), first edition Paris,, 2013 ; second edition Paris, Pluriel, 2015
- Nietzsche au jour le jour : Un florilège pour tous et pour personne (Friedrich Nietzsche quotations), Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013
- De l’aube à midi : Aphorismes,[11] Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013
- Suite lyrique (with the painter Jean-Marc Brunet), Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013
- Alexandre Scriabine : L'Ivresse des sphères, Arles, Actes Sud,
- Les pensées : Suivies du Dictionnaire des idées reçues (à partir de l’œuvre de Gustave Flaubert), Paris, Le Cherche midi,
- Glenn Gould ou le Piano de l’esprit, Arles, Actes Sud, 2016
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.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Jean-Yves Clément : biographie, actualités et émissions France Culture. franceculture.fr. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Biographie et actualités de Jean-Yves Clément. franceinter.fr. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Jean-Yves Clément. Lisztomanias. fr-FR. 2019-01-13.
- Web site: Infos pratiques. 5 March 2017.
- Web site: Prix Pelléas. livreshebdo.fr. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Le festival. lisztomanias.fr. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Association Lisztomanias de Châteauroux. Lisztomanias. fr-FR. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Lisztomanias International. Lisztomanias International. fr. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Nomination ou promotion dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres janvier 2012. culture.gouv.fr. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres – été 2018 – Ministère de la Culture. culture.gouv.fr. fr. 2019-01-09.
- Web site: Le Passeur Éditeur – De l'aube à midi. le-passeur-editeur.com. fr. 2019-01-10.
