Jean-Yves Clément

Jean-Yves Clément (born July 21, 1959 in Bourges) is a French essayist, poet and organizer of festivals.[1][2]

Jean-Yves Clément
Jean-Yves Clément, the 3 May 2014
Born (1959-07-21) July 21, 1959
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

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 Le Cherche midi, 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.[3]

Since 1995, he has been the artistic director[4] of the Nohant Festival and creator of the Prix Pelléas, 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] 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, Le Cherche midi, 1990 ISBN 2-8627-4174-4
  • De l’aube à midi (From Dawn to Noon), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 1999 ISBN 2-8627-4637-1
  • Variations Chopin : Quarante-huit préludes (Chopin Variations: Forty-eight Preludes), Vendœuvres, Lancosme éditeur, 2005 ISBN 2-9121-8427-4
  • 111 notes d’amour : Variations (111 Love Notes: Variations), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2008 ISBN 2-7491-1110-2
  • Nuits de l’âme (Nights of the Soul), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2009 ISBN 2-7491-1644-9
  • Les Deux Âmes de Frédéric Chopin (The Two Souls of Frederic Chopin), first edition Paris, Presses de la Renaissance, 2010 ISBN 2-7509-0397-1; second edition Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2017 ISBN 2-3689-0531-6
  • Franz Liszt : La Dispersion magnifique (Franz Liszt: The Magnificent Dispersion) , Arles, Actes Sud, 2011 ISBN 2-7427-9523-5
  • Le Chant de toi : Ode (The Song of You: Ode), Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2012 ISBN 2-7491-2757-2
  • La Raison des sortilèges : Entretiens sur la musique (with Michel Onfray), first edition Paris, Autrement, 2013 ISBN 2-7467-3425-7; second edition Paris, Pluriel, 2015 ISBN 2-3689-0531-6
  • Nietzsche au jour le jour : Un florilège pour tous et pour personne (Friedrich Nietzsche quotations), Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013 ISBN 2-3689-0022-5
  • De l’aube à midi : Aphorismes,[11] Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013 ISBN 2-3689-0047-0
  • Suite lyrique (with the painter Jean-Marc Brunet), Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013 ISBN 2-3689-0060-8
  • Alexandre Scriabine : L'Ivresse des sphères, Arles, Actes Sud, ISBN 2-3300-3904-2
  • Les pensées : Suivies du Dictionnaire des idées reçues (à partir de l’œuvre de Gustave Flaubert), Paris, Le Cherche midi, ISBN 2-7491-4510-4
  • Glenn Gould ou le Piano de l’esprit, Arles, Actes Sud, 2016 ISBN 2-3300-6135-8

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.
gollark: Is that some sort of anti-spider rhetoric?
gollark: I'm imagining stuff like ææææææææææææææææææÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆæa the spiders own half the stock market and executed a hostile takeover on my company.
gollark: So we've all seen arachnocommunism. But what about arachnoCAPITALISM?
gollark: If you ask a centrist, they will probably say that they dislike crime and would prefer to get rid of it if it was somehow possible.
gollark: I mean, it's not like centrists support crime because crime is something which currently happens.

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. https://www.festivalnohant.com/infos-pratiques/
  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). 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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