Marcel Marnat

{{Short description|French musicologist, journalist and radio producer (1933–2024)}} {{Infobox person | name = Marcel Marnat | image = Marcel Marnat.jpg | caption = Marnat in 2011 | alt = | birth_place = Lyon, France | birth_date = {{start year|1933|7|6|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|12|17|1933|07|06|df=y}} | death_place = Issy-les-Moulineaux, France | occupation = {{hlist| Musicologist | Journalist | Radio producer }} | organizations = France Musique }}

'''Marcel Paul Marnat''' (6 July 1933 – 17 December 2024) was a French musicologist, journalist and radio producer, responsible for the programme of France Musique from 1978 to 1992. His works on Maurice Ravel and Giacomo Puccini have been regarded as landmark books.<ref name="diapason" />

== Life and career == Marnat was born in the seventh arrondissement of Lyon on 6 July 1933.<ref name="PMI" /> After a short scientific training in medicine,<ref name="Venturini" /> he began to write, self-taught, for various cultural newspapers and magazines<ref name="Venturini" /> (''Combat'', ''Jazz Hot'', ''Arts'', ''Les Lettres Françaises'', ''L'Express'', ''Preuves'', ''Le Monde'', ''Disques'', ''Harmonie'', ''Le Monde de la musique'', ''Nouvelle Revue Française'').<ref name="PMI" /> He wrote on current affairs, art, cinema, literature and made lists new discographic publications. He was also secretary of the Ravel Foundation<ref name="PMI" /> and compiled a catalogue of the works of Maurice Ravel.

Marnat was responsible for programming at France Musique from 1978 to 1992.<ref name="diapason" /><ref name="PMI" /> He worked from 1990 with the Radio Suisse Romande-Espace 2.<ref name="PMI" /> He was awarded the prize for music criticism. His 2006 book on Giacomo Puccini was honoured by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and received the Prix Pelléas as well as a prize for musical biography of the SACEM at the Deauville book festival. He was a member of the International Music Press Association for many years.<ref name="PMI" />

On 30 September 2022, his collection of tribal art was auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot.<ref name="diapason" /><ref>{{cite web |lang=fr |title=Thierry de Maigret commissaire-priseur. Collection Marcel Marnat |url=https://www.thierrydemaigret.com/catalogue/130017-collection-marcel-marnat-lots-1-a-250-provenant-de-la-collection-comte-et-comtesse-jeanjacques-de-flers-lots-251-a-359 |access-date=18 December 2024}}</ref>

Marnat died in Issy-les-Moulineaux on 17 December 2024, at the age of 91.<ref name="diapason" />

== Publications == * ''Maurice Ravel'', Fayard, 1986<ref name="Decornoy" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senscritique.com/livre/Maurice_Ravel/12398780|title=Maurice Ravel Marcel Marnat|website=SensCritique}}</ref> * ''Haydn, la mesure de son siècle'', Fayard, 1995<ref name="diapason" /> * ''Stravinsky'', Éditions du Seuil, 1995<ref name="diapason" /> * ''Antonio Vivaldi'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fayard.fr/antonio-vivaldi-9782213614694|title=Antonio Vivaldi, Marcel Marnat | Fayard|website=www.fayard.fr|access-date=2017-09-03|archive-date=2017-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904013148/http://www.fayard.fr/antonio-vivaldi-9782213614694|url-status=dead}}</ref> Fayard, 2003 * ''Giacomo Puccini'', Fayard, 2006<ref name="diapason" />

He also wrote publications about Modest Mussorgsky (1962), Paul Klee (1969), Michelangelo (1974),<ref name="diapason" /> D. H. Lawrence,<ref name="PMI" /> and Ludwig van Beethoven.<ref name="diapason" />

== References == <references>

<ref name="Decornoy">{{cite web | last = Decornoy | first = Jacques | url = https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1996/08/DECORNOY/5733 | title = "Joseph Haydn. La mesure de son siècle" by Marcel Marnat | website = monde-diplomatique.fr | date = | language = fr | access-date= 20 December 2024 }}</ref>

<ref name="Venturini">{{cite web | last = Venturini | first = Philippe | url = https://classica.fr/disparition-de-marcel-marnat/ | title = Disparition de Marcel Marnat | trans-title = Death of Marcel Marnat | website = classica.fr | date = 18 December 2024 | language = fr | access-date= 20 December 2024 }}</ref>

<ref name="diapason">{{cite magazine | url = https://www.diapasonmag.fr/a-la-une/disparition-du-musicologue-marcel-marnat-53061.html | title = Disparition du musicologue Marcel Marnat | trans-title = Death of musicologist Marcel Marnat | magazine = Diapason | date = 17 December 2024 | language = fr | access-date= 17 December 2024 }}</ref>

<ref name="PMI">{{cite web | title = Marcel Marnat | url = https://pressemusicaleinternationale.net/homepage/annuaire-de-la-pmi/178-marcel-marnat.html | website = presse musicale internationale.fr | language = fr | access-date = 18 December 2024 }}</ref>

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== External links == * {{discogs artist}} * {{IMDb name| 4486570}} * [https://www.fayard.fr/auteur/marcel-marnat/ Marcel Marnat] on Éditions Fayard * [https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-marcel-marnat.html Marcel Marnat] on France Culture * {{youtube|IZevQvxE2fE|Marcel Marnat}}

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