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Following studies in music, physics
and art history, Gilles Cantagrel initially turned his
career towards the media and communications, notably
with the magazines Harmonie and Diapason. A program
producer for France Musiques, he was called upon to
manage the station’s programming from 1984 to 1987. Now
artistic advisor to the Director of France Musiques, he
also serves as vice-chairman of the European
Broadcasting Union Music Commission. A concert presenter
on television, producer of numerous radio shows in
France and abroad, lecturer and host, he was involved in
the creation of the Musicora classical music trade show
in 1985. A teacher, he is a lecturing professor at the
Sorbonne and is involved with the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Musique de Paris and in various
conservatories and universities in France and Quebec.
Gilles Cantagrel has written in a wide array of
publications: magazines, dictionaries and encyclopædias
(Larousse de la musique, Encyclopædia Universalis, etc.)
and has published many other works, among them La
Discothèque idéale (1969) and the Guide de la mélodie et
du lied (1994). First published in 1982, his Bach en son
temps was re-released in a new revised and expanded
edition in 1997. His major essay Le moulin et la
rivière, air et variations sur J. S. Bach, released in
1998, received awards from the Académie Charles Cros and
the Académie des beaux-arts and was followed by a visual
retrospective of the times, life and works of Bach
entitled Passion Bach, l’album d’une vie (2000). |
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