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Alain Cophignon

b. 1963

French musicologist

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Born 1963. Alain Cophignon is a French musicologist and writer.

Alain Cophignon (born 26 February 1963, in Paris) is a French writer, photographer and aesthetician.

Biography After having supported his doctoral thesis in the sciences of art at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2000 under the presidency of , Cophignon was a professor of general culture and history of art at the (IESA), Paris, and at the (EEGP) in Angers.

A member of the Société des gens de lettres and co-founder of the "Société musicale française Georges Enesco", he is the author of a monograph devoted to this Romanian musician who lived in France, published by Fayard, hailed by the French-speaking press, the Internet or audiovisual as well as foreign; He is a laureate of the "Kastner-Boursault" prize awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts 2006 and the 2007.

Publications 2015: Annie Pelzak : Outre mer 2010: Sous le tourbillon des couleurs : Isabelle Langlois 2006: Georges Enesco, Librairie Arthème Fayard (Bibliothèque des grands compositeurs), Paris, 692 p. - George Enescu, translated into Romanian by Dominique Ilea, Éditions de l'Institut culturel roumain, Bucarest, 2009 2003: Avant-propos to the work by George Bălan, Emil Cioran : la lucidité libératrice ?, Éditions Josette Lyon (Les Maîtres à penser du XXe), Paris, 234 p. 1998/2001: L'œuvre musicale de Georges Enesco et sa pensée du destin, Proceedings of the international symposium "Georges Enesco" of musicology, Bucharest, and of the symposium of the International Academy of Villecroze 1999: La musique entre divertissement et défi existentiel : notes philosophiques, Actes du congrès international de Musicosophia, St. Peter, Germany

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French musicologist

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Alain Cophignon was born on 26 February 1963 in Paris.

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