Alain Cophignon (born 26 February 1963, in Paris) is a French writer, photographer and aesthetician.
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 , Cophignon was a professor of general culture and history of art at the Institut d'études supérieures des arts (IESA), Paris, and at the (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 2007.
George Enescu, known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher and is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history.
Harry Halbreich was a Belgian musicologist.
Stéphane de Gérando is a French composer, conductor, multimedia artist, and researcher.
Nicolas Dautricourt is a French violinist.
Anne Cheng is a French Sinologist who teaches at the Collège de France and specializes in Chinese history and the history of Chinese philosophy. Pablo Ariel Blitstein, the author of "A new debate about alterity," describes her as an "important representative of French sinology".
Jacques-Gabriel Prod’homme was a French musicologist and has been president of the Société française de musicologie, the French association of musicologists, in 1944.
Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert is a French orientalist, specialist of the history of Buddhism in Japan and of its Chinese predecessors. His work particularly focus on Tendai and the philology of Sino-Japanese Buddhist texts. He is the author of the French translation of the Lotus Sūtra, seminal text of Mahayana 大乘, from the ancient Chinese text.
Georges Favre was a French composer and musicologist. He was a student of Paul Dukas for composition and Vincent d'Indy for conducting.
Marc Honegger was a French musicologist and choirmaster.
Sylvie Mamy, born in Besançon, is a French writer and musicologist, Docteur d'État ès lettres, and research director at the CNRS.
Catherine Cessac is a French musicologist and music publisher.
Danièle Pistone is a French musicologist, emeritus professor at the University Paris Sorbonne 4.
Makis Solomos a Franco-Greek musicologist specialised in contemporary music and particularly in the work of Iannis Xenakis. He is also one of the specialists of Adorno's thought. His work focuses on the issue of sound ecology and decay. He has published articles and books and participates in meetings and symposia. In 2005, he also participated in the creation of the magazine "Filigranes" which aims to broaden the field of musicology.
François Porcile is a French film director, essayist, film historian and musicologist.
Bernard Georges-Marie Gavoty was a 20th-century French organist, musicologist, music critic, and talk show host.
François Lesure was a French librarian and musicologist.
Gilles Cantagrel is a French musicologist, writer, lecturer and music educator.
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg was a French art historian and honorary general curator for heritage, a specialist on Gothic and Romanesque art.
Adrien Rougier (23 June 1892 – 1 July 1993 was a French organist, organ builder, conductor and composer.
Marie-Jacques Massacrié-Durand was a French music publisher and composer, sometimes under the pseudonym J. Samm. The family's publishing house, Éditions Durand, published works by many of Durand's contemporaries, including Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Gabriel Fauré, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns.