{{Short description|French musicologist, pianist and journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Anne Rey | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1944 | birth_place = France | death_date = January 31 {{death year and age|2012|1944}} | death_place = Paris, France | other_names = | occupation = Musicologist, pianist, journalist, educator | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Anne Rey''' (1944 – 31 January 2012) was a French musicologist, pianist, journalist and educator.
== Life == Born in 1944, Rey is the daughter of an architect and a psychoanalyst. She was trained as a pianist and musicologist.
In 1968, she became a freelancer for the newspaper ''Le Monde''. In 1978, she was part of the founding team of the monthly magazine ''Le Monde de la musique''. There, she worked in collaboration with Louis Dandrel, Francis Mayor, Bernard Lauzanne...
She wrote numerous articles on music and a biography of Erik Satie for Éditions du Seuil.<ref>[http://www.babelio.com/auteur/Anne-Rey/13972 Anne Rey] on ''babelio.com''.</ref>
For ''le Monde de la musique'', she proposed to open the editions of the monthly magazine specialized in classic music to jazz, rock, song, dance, musical theatre.
In the 1980s, she worked in the culture department of the newspaper ''Le Monde'', and created the supplement ''Arts et spectacles'', open to rock, contemporary dance, world musics. She left the newspaper in 1995 to teach cultural mediation at the university. In 2006, she published ''Mozart et ses masques''<ref>[https://www.amazon.fr/Mozart-ses-masques-Anne-Rey/dp/2258070880 ''Mozart et ses masques''] on Amazon</ref> in the Omnibus series.<ref>[http://www.lalibre.be/culture/livres/en-bref-51b88ea3e4b0de6db9adfb01 ''Mozart et ses masques''], La Libre Belgique, 2006.</ref>
Rey died in Paris 31 January 2012<ref>[https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2012/02/07/anne-rey-journaliste-essayiste-et-enseignante_1639995_3382.html ''Disparitions: Anne Rey, journaliste, essayiste et enseignante''], ''Le Monde'', 7 February 2012.</ref> and is buried in the Île d'Yeu.
== Bibliography == * Anne Rey, ''Erik Satie'', Éditions du Seuil - Series Solfèges, No 35, 1974 (1st edition), 1995 (2nd edition). * Anne Rey, Historical and literary file and selection of texts by various authors for ''Une vie'' by Maupassant, Editions Presses Pocket, 1990 (1st edition), 1998 (2e édition). * Anne Rey, in collaboration with {{ill|Claude Aziza|fr}}, ''La Littérature policière'', Pocket, Paris, 2003. * Anne Rey, ''Mozart et ses masques'', Omnibus, 2006 (includes ''Vie de Mozart'' by Stendhal, extracts from ''Vies de Haydn, Mozart et Métastase'', ''Mozart, l'homme'' by Alfred Einstein, extracts from ''Mozart, l'homme et l'œuvre'', ''Le Dieu Mozart et le monde des oiseaux''<ref>[http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Blanche/Le-Dieu-Mozart-et-le-monde-des-oiseaux ''Le Dieu Mozart et le monde des oiseaux''] on Éditions Gallimard</ref> by {{ill|Marcel Moré|fr}}, ''Mozart on the way to Prague'' by Eduard Mörike, ''Don Juan'' by E. T. A. Hoffmann, extracts from ''Nouvelles musicales'', ''Sa carrière posthume'' by Jean Barraqué, extracts from ''Mozart'' and ''Mozart and Amadeus'' by Anthony Burgess).
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