Le Ménestrel

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Le Ménestrel was a French weekly musical newspaper that appeared in Paris from 1833 to 1940. She was founded by Joseph-Hippolyte L'Henry; it was initially published by the Librairie Poussielgue . In 1840 Jacques-Léopold Heugel bought it. From then on, it was moved by the Éditions Heugel until it wasdiscontinued in1940 during World War II . After its main competitor, the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris , had been discontinued in1880, Le Ménestrel was the most respected music magazine in France.

history

In 1827 François-Joseph Fétis founded La Revue Musicale , the first French magazine devoted entirely to classical music . In 1833 two serious competitors appeared, the Ménestrel and the Gazette Musicale by Maurice Schlesinger . The first edition of Ménestrel appeared on December 1, 1833. In 1835, Schlesinger bought La Revue Musicale from Fétis and merged the two magazines under the title Revue et gazette musicale de Paris .

From July 1885 D'Harlac was editor-in-chief of the Ménestrel ; in March of the following year he gave up this post in favor of journalist and critic Jules Lovy. Lovy has been with the magazine since its inception. In 1836 the edition was 600 copies; the number of readers was probably much higher. In Paris alone there were more than 500 cabinets de lecture , the forerunners of today's libraries. In 1840 the music publishers Jacques-Léopold Heugel and Jean-Antoine Meissonnier acquired Le Ménestrel . Heugel became managing director, Jules Lovy remained editor-in-chief until his death in 1863. The critic and music historian Joseph d'Ortigue succeeded him. Arthur Pougin later became editor-in-chief. Pougin was an employee from 1885 to 1921. After d'Ortigue's death in 1886, however, only the name of Jacques-Léopold Heugel appeared in the imprint . When he died in 1883, his son Henri-Georges Heugel succeeded him. His son Jacques-Paul Heugel was in turn his successor as managing director until the magazine was discontinued in 1940.

For 107 years, Le Ménestrel was published every week, first on Sundays, then on Saturdays and finally on Fridays. The Franco-Prussian War prevented its publication from December 1870 to November 1871. Publication was also interrupted during the First World War; only on October 17, 1919 did another issue appear. During the Second World War , the magazine appeared until the German occupation . In the May 14, 1940 edition, there is the following announcement:

«Nous souhaitons pouvoir reprendre, à l'automne, l'effort que nous nous sommes imposé pendant la première phase de la guerre, conscients d'avoir ainsi servi modestement, mais de notre mieux, la cause impérissable de la pensée et de l ' art français. "

“We hope that in the autumn we will be able to resume the work we did during the first phase of the war, knowing that, to a modest extent, but to the best of our ability, we have served the imperishable thought and art of France. "

This hope was not fulfilled; it remained the last edition of the Ménestrel . The publishing house Éditions Heugel existed as an independent company until 1980. Then it was sold to the Éditions Alphonse Leduc .

In addition to the people already mentioned, Henri Duponchel, Max d'Ollone , Alphonse Royer, Camille Le Senne and Paul Collin contributed to the good reputation of the Ménestrel . Among the Belgian correspondents is Lucien Solvay, editor-in-chief of Le Soir .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Théophile Gautier : Correspondance générale 1865–1867 . Ed .: Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre. Librairie Droz, 1995, ISBN 2-600-00075-5 (French, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ A b Katharine Ellis: Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France . Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-521-03589-9 , pp. 1–2 and 268–269 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Harry Earl Whitmore, The “Cabinet de Lecture” in France, 1800–1850 , The Library Quarterly, 48 (1), Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.
  4. ^ Ruth Watanabe: The Pougin Collection . In: University of Rochester Library Bulletin . tape 3 , no. 3 . Rochester 1948 (English, rochester.edu [accessed January 2, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Le Ménestrel , Cent ans d'histoire de la musique et du théâtre , Volume 95, No. 5, February 3, 1933, p. 52.
  6. ^ Lisa Feurweise: The Business Affairs of Gabriel Fauré . In: Hans Lenneberg (Ed.): The Dissemination of Music: Studies in the History of Music Publishing . Routledge, 1994, ISBN 2-88449-117-1 , pp. 126 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Robert S. Nichols, Jeremy Drake: Heugel . In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (=  Grove's Dictionaries ). Grove, 2001, ISBN 0-19-517067-9 (English).
  8. ^ Le Ménestrel , May 24, 1940.

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