Pierre Citron

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Pierre Citron (born April 19, 1919 in Paris , † November 10, 2010 ) was a French Romance studies scholar , literary scholar and musicologist .

life and work

Citron grew up in Paris ( Lycée Henri IV , Agrégation ). From 1942 to 1957 he was a high school teacher, a. a. in Morocco. He completed his habilitation in Paris in 1960 with the Thèses La poésie de Paris dans la littérature française de Rousseau à Baudelaire (2 vols., Paris 1961, 2006) and (ed.) Balzac, Le colonel Chabert (Paris 1961) and went to the institute Français in London. From 1963 to 1969 he was a professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , from 1969 to 1983 at the Sorbonne and Sorbonne Nouvelle. Citron edited the musicological works of Denis Diderot , as well as the works of Honoré de Balzac , Hector Berlioz (writings, including correspondence), Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , Stéphane Mallarmé and Jean Giono (including correspondence). In 1990 he received the Prix ​​Goncourt for the biography of Giono .

Pierre Citron was married to the historian Suzanne Citron , b. Grumbach (1922-2018).

Other works

  • Couperin, Paris 1956, 1963, 1976, 1996
  • Bartok, Paris 1963, 1969, 1982, 1994
  • Dans Balzac, Paris 1986
  • Giono 1895-1970, Paris 1990
  • Giono, Paris 1995 (Ecrivains de toujours)
  • (Ed. With Cécile Reynaud) Dictionnaire Berlioz, Paris 2003
  • Renaissance du village de Montjustin de 1945 à la fin des années soixante, Paris 2003, 2010
  • Robert Ganzo, Bordeaux 2005

literature

  • Qui est qui en France 2001-2002 . Levallois-Perret 2001 sv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antoine Flandrin: L'historienne Suzanne Citron est morte . In: Le Monde.fr . January 22, 2018, ISSN  1950-6244 ( lemonde.fr [accessed January 22, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Citron, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French musicologist, Romance philologist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2010