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Paul-Gilbert Langevin (5 July 1933, Boulogne-Billancourt - 4 July 1986, Paris) was a French musicologist and physicist who wrote several books on XIXth century classical music. == Life == He was the son of French physicist Paul Langevin (1872-1946) and Eliane Montel (1898-1992), teacher at the Sorbonne science departement. Paul-Gilbert Langevin is first of all student at ESPCI, which director was his father from 1925 to 1946. Then he completes his scientific formation at the Sorbonne and Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie with a degree in physical chemistry under René Freymann, who became one of his close friends. He was also a friend of physicist Herbert Überall who mastered a thesis under Hans Bethe, and his wife. But very soon, he became in love with classical music, listening to Anton Bruckner's symphonies on radio recordings in his early years, and meeting young prodigy conductor Roberto Benzi. After his scientific degrees, he decides to write a thesis at the ''Centre Universitaire de Vincennes'' about XIXth century Austrian music and especially about Anton Bruckner and the so-called "ethnoromantic" period. Then, he becomes a physics teacher at the Sorbonne science departement and at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie which was created in the sixties, and writes books on classical music. He meets his musicologist colleagues: Harry Halbreich, Gustave Kars, Jacques Feschotte, Pierre Vidal, Marc Vignal, Jean-Luc Caron... He becomes a close friend of director Eric-Paul Stekel, son of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel, and a close friend of director Florian Hollard, son of French resistant Michel Hollard, the so-called "man who save London". He is a friend from childhood with painter and engraver Nicolas Eekman's daughter, Luce Eekman. He is very close too with socialist Louis Mermaz, one of his high school friends, and meets radical socialist Pierre Mendès-France. He creates the Anton Bruckner French society, writes a lot of books on XIXth century symphonic music, edited in ''Musical Review'' and by ''l'Age d'Homme'' editions. He is a musical critique in ''The World of Music'', edited by his friend Anne Rey. From the fifties, his passion is classical music and symphonic music and he writes articles, monographs and books about Anton Bruckner, Franz Schubert, Guillaume Lekeu, Albéric Magnard, Joseph-Guy Ropartz and Charles Koechlin and is interested also by works by Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schmidt, Ferruccio Busoni, Leoš Janáček or Carl Nielsen. His niece Noémie Langevin married Yves Koechlin, the son of French composer Charles Koechlin, so he often visited them to write on the famous composer's works, writing studies and catalogs. In the seventies, he married Anne-Marie Desbat. He became the father of two children, Paul-Eric Langevin, born in 1979, who graduated in mathematics and linguistics, and Isabelle Langevin, born in 1983, who is a kinesitherapy specialist. In 1986, he died from a kidney cancer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul-Gilbert Langevin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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