Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Jean-Jacques Nattiez (; born December 30, 1945) is a French musicologist and ethnomusicologist active in Canada, who is a central figure in music semiology. He has been a Professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal since 1972.

Life and career Jean-Jacques Nattiez was born on December 30, 1945, in Amiens, France.

In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2001, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.

Awards 1988, Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association

Selected publications Proust as Musician. Translated by Derrick Puffett. Cambridge, 1989. Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). . Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation. Translated by Stewart Spencer. Princeton University Press, 1993. (pbk).