Philippe Gumplowicz

Philippe Gumplowicz (born 6 October 1950) is a French professor of universities, musicologist and music historian.

Biography His parents, a couple of Polish Jews, emigrated to France in 1933. As a young man, Gumplowicz bathed in the "Zionist and Marxist" youth movements.

Publications 1988 – Les Travaux d'Orphée, on Persée, (Book from his thesis, reissued in 2001) 1991 – Le Roman du jazz. Première époque, 1893–1930, Fayard 2000 – Le Roman du jazz. Deuxième époque, 1930–1942, Fayard 2008 – Le Roman du jazz. Les modernes, Fayard 2012 – Les Résonances de l'ombre, musique et identités de Wagner au jazz, Fayard