Michel Arrignon

{{Short description|French clarinetist (1948–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} '''Michel Arrignon''' ({{IPA|fr|miʃɛl aʁiɲɔ̃|lang}}; 1948 – 12 March 2025) was a French clarinetist and professor of clarinet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.

==Life and career== Arrignon studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.<ref name="buffet">{{cite web|url=http://www.china-buffetcrampon.fr/en/artists.php?mode=artistPresentation&aid=101|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226015746/http://www.china-buffetcrampon.fr/en/artists.php?mode=artistPresentation&aid=101|archive-date=26 February 2012|title=Michel Arrignon|year=2006|publisher=Buffet Crampon|accessdate=22 June 2015}}</ref> He played in the Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesses Musicales and won second prize in the Geneva Concours International d'Exécution Musicale.<ref name="buffet" /> He co-founded the Ensemble Intercontemporain with Pierre Boulez.<ref name="buffet" /> He later joined the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris.<ref name="buffet" /> He also founded the O. Messian Quartet.<ref name="buffet" /> He taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris since 1989.<ref name="buffet" /> He also served as a juror in several national and international music competitions, including the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition.<ref name="nielsen">{{cite web|url=http://www.odensesymfoni.dk/cncomp/show/english/main_page/jurors.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725030752/http://www.odensesymfoni.dk/cncomp/show/english/main_page/jurors.aspx|title=Jurors|year=2008|archive-date=25 July 2009|publisher=Carl Nielsen International Music Competition|accessdate=22 June 2015}}</ref>

Arrignon worked as a clarinet tester and developer at Buffet Crampon from 1985.<ref name="buffet" /> He helped create the Tosca clarinet, released in 2003 by Buffet Crampon,<ref name="buffet1">{{cite web|url=http://www.buffet-crampon.com/en/history.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061225170616/http://www.buffet-crampon.com/en/history.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 December 2006 |title=Since 1825 |year=2006 |publisher=Buffet Crampon |accessdate=22 June 2015 }}</ref> as well as Buffet's Festival clarinet designed in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 May 2016 |title=Festival - Buffet Crampon |url=https://www.buffet-crampon.com/en/instruments/clarinets/festival/ |access-date=10 March 2023 |website=Buffet Crampon - Paris |language=en-US}}</ref> He played on Buffet Crampon Tosca Green-Line clarinets.<ref name="buffet" />

Arrignon died on 12 March 2025, at the age of 76.<ref>[https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/disparition-du-clarinettiste-et-grand-pedagogue-michel-arrignon-4409829 Disparition du clarinettiste et grand pédagogue Michel Arrignon] {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

==Discography== *''Stockhausen – Donnerstag aus Licht''. Deutsche Grammophon 2740 272 (4 LPs); 423 379-2 (4CDs). Hamburg: Polydor International GmbH, 1983. *''Weber Concertos'', with Jean-Claude Montac. Karusel Music International, 1990.

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