Jean Roy

Jean Roy (1916 – 22 September 2011) was a French music critic and musicologist, born in Paris.

Career In 1946, with Armand Panigel, Jean Roy was among the co-founders of the radio program for the RTF then France Musique, a journalist for La Revue musicale of Henry Prunières, for Diapason then le Monde de la musique, secretary of the annual magazine Cahiers Maurice Ravel, whose number 14 of 2011 was dedicated to him. He was vice-president of the "Amis de Francis Poulenc", president of the "Amis de Darius Milhaud", and president of the "Roger Désormière committee".

Publications 1954: La Vie de Berlioz racontée par Berlioz, Paris, Éditions Julliard. 1962: Présences contemporaines : musique française, Nouvelles Éditions Debresse. 1964: Francis Poulenc, Paris, Seghers. 1968: Darius Milhaud, Seghers. 1983: Bizet, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, "Solfèges" n°40, 192 p. . 1986: Maurice Ravel : Lettres à Roland-Manuel et à sa famille, Quimper, Calligrammes, (edition, preface and notes by Jean Roy) 1989: Ravel d'après Ravel suivi de Rencontres avec Vlado Perlemuter, éditions Alinéa 1994: Le Groupe des Six, Le Seuil, 1994. 1997: Samson François, le poète du piano, éditions Josette Lyon. (book with a CD)