André Tubeuf (18 December 1930 – 26 July 2021"Mort d'André Tubeuf: Roselyne Bachelot rend hommage à un 'passeur incomparable' " by Béatrice Mouedine, Radio Classique, 26 July 2021 (in French)) was a French writer, philosopher, and music critic.
Biography Training Tubeuf was born in Smyrna (today İzmir), Turkey. A condisciple in Beirut, Lebanon, France, of Salah Stétié and Robert Abirached, Tubeuf came to Paris, France, after the war and performed his khâgne at the lycee Louis-le-Grand, where he joined Dominique Fernandez, Michel Deguy, Jacques Derrida and his cousin Pierre-Jean Rémy.
In 1950, Tubeuf was received at the École normale supérieure, rue d'Ulm, where he first followed the teaching of Michel Alexandre (himself a pupil of Alain), then that of Louis Althusser and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and became friends with Gérard Granel.
In 1951, with Maurice Clavel, Tubeuf translated Electra by Sophocles for Silvia Monfort.
An agrégé in philosophy, Tubeuf taught this subject in philosophy class and then in Classes préparatoires littéraires (khâgne) at the lycée Fustel-de-Coulanges in Strasbourg, from 1957 to 1992.
In 1972, he joined the Ministry of Culture in the cabinet of Jacques Duhamel, to deal with musical matters; he pursued this experience in 1975 in the office of Michel Guy.
Writer From 1976, Tubeuf mainly collaborated with the magazine Le Point, but also at Avant Scène Opéra, Harmonie and Lyrica, then Diapason and finally Classica. In addition, he was a regular lecturer, such as at the Salzburg Festival, and radio broadcaster.
After Romain Rolland, André Suarès and Vladimir Jankélévitch, of whom he was the pupil, he renewed the genre of musical literature in France, escaping the novelistic genre, without falling into musicology.
In addition to his essays on Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Strauss and the lied, Tubeuf wrote profiles of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Claudio Arrau, Hans Hotter, Rudolf Serkin, Arthur Rubinstein, Régine Crespin, Daniel Barenboim, Hélène Grimaud and Cecilia Bartoli.
Awards and distinctions Commandeur of the National Order of Merit (2009) The Académie française awarded him 2009 the Prix de l'essai (2009) The Académie française awarded him the in 2018 for his entire body of work.
Bibliography 1979: Le Chant retrouvé, Fayard 1993: 1987: Les Enfants dissipés, novel, Gallimard 1993: Wagner, le chant des images, "L'opéra des images", Éditions du Chêne 1999: La Callas, "Mémoire des Stars", Pierre Assouline publisher 2000: Damiel ou les Indifférents, novel, Albin Michel 2003: Appassionata (portrait of pianist Claudio Arrau) 2004: Richard Strauss ou le Voyageur et son ombre, biography, "Classica", Actes Sud 2004: Les Autres Soirs, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Éditions Tallandier 2005: Mozart, chemins et chant, biography, "Classica", Actes Sud 2005: Divas, book with CD, Assouline 2007: L'Offrande musicale, portraits an essays, "Bouquins", Éditions Robert Laffont 2008: La Quatorzième Valse, novel, "Classica", Actes Sud 2008: Les Amours du poète, La Pionnière 2009: Beethoven, biography, "Classica", Actes Sud, prix de l'essai of the Académie française.. 2010: Verdi, de vive voix, biography, "Classica", Actes Sud 2010: Hommage à Régine Crespin, with Christophe Ghristi, Actes Sud/Opéra de Paris 2010: L'Opéra de Vienne, Actes Sud 2011: Les Ballets russes, Assouline 2011: Le Lied, Actes Sud 2012: Dictionnaire amoureux de la musique, Plon 2013: Je crois entendre encore…, Plon 2014: Hommages, Actes Sud 2016: L'Orient derrière soi, Actes Sud
References
External links Selection of articles by André Tubeuf André Tubeuf connaît son classique on Télérama (23 July 2016) André Tubeuf at Actes Sud André Tubeuf on France Inter André Tubeuf on Babelio André Tubeuf et l'écho lointain de l'Orient on L'Express (4 December 2016) « André Tubeuf : Mémoire » by André Tubeuf and Lionel Esparza, France Musique, July 2016 (4 programs) Discography on Discogs Lecthot - Interview d'André Tubeuf - L'Orient derrière soi on YouTube