Alain Cophignon (born 26 February 1963, in Paris) is a French writer, photographer and aesthetician.

Biography edit

After having supported his doctoral thesis in the sciences of art at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2000 under the presidency of Olivier Revault d'Allonnes [fr], Cophignon was a professor of general culture and history of art at the Institut d'études supérieures des arts [fr] (IESA), Paris, and at the [1] (EEGP) in Angers.

A member of the Société des gens de lettres and co-founder of the "Société musicale française Georges Enesco", he is the author of a monograph devoted to this Romanian musician who lived in France, published by Fayard, hailed by the French-speaking press,[1] the Internet[2] or audiovisual as well as foreign;[3] He is a laureate of the "Kastner-Boursault" prize awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts 2006[4] and the Prix des Muses [fr]2007.

Publications edit

  • 2015: Annie Pelzak : Outre mer
  • 2010: Sous le tourbillon des couleurs : Isabelle Langlois
  • 2006: Georges Enesco, Librairie Arthème Fayard (Bibliothèque des grands compositeurs), Paris, 692 p. ISBN 978-2-213-62321-4 - George Enescu, translated into Romanian by Dominique Ilea, Éditions de l'Institut culturel roumain, Bucarest, 2009 ISBN 978-973-577-578-0
  • 2003: Avant-propos to the work by George Bălan, Emil Cioran : la lucidité libératrice ?, Éditions Josette Lyon (Les Maîtres à penser du XXe), Paris, 234 p. ISBN 978-2-84319-038-4
  • 1998/2001: L'œuvre musicale de Georges Enesco et sa pensée du destin, Proceedings of the international symposium "Georges Enesco" of musicology, Bucharest, and of the symposium of the International Academy of Villecroze
  • 1999: La musique entre divertissement et défi existentiel : notes philosophiques, Actes du congrès international de Musicosophia, St. Peter, Germany

References edit

  1. ^ Cf. : La Lettre du musicien, Opéra magazine (May 2006); Crescendo (May-June 2006); Classica, Diapason, Le Monde de la musique (June 2006) ; La Dépêche du Midi (April 2007).
  2. ^ Cf.: ConcertoNet, RefMusicologie, TraversSons.
  3. ^ (in Romanian) Cf. : Convorbiri literare Archived 2009-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, Contemporary Music Journal[permanent dead link],Curentul, Jurnalul de dimineaţa, Jurnal de festival George Enescu, Muzica, România libera, Ziarul de Iaşi, etc.
  4. ^ See palmarès 2006 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.

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