Jean-Yves Clément


Jean-Yves Clément is a French essayist, poet and organizer of festivals.

Biography

Jean-Yves Clément pursued university advanced studies in philosophy and has a high level in piano and advanced musicology qualifications.
In 1990, he became collection director at the publishing house, a post he held until 2012. There he created the collection "Amor fati" and published the unedited works of authors including Alain-Fournier, Nietzsche, and Jules Renard.
Since 1995, he has been the artistic director of the and creator of the, that rewards "the book with the finest literary qualities devoted to music".
In 2002, he founded the Lisztomanias of Châteauroux, a music festival where world-renowned artists gather. He is the artistic director, as well as Lisztomanias International, an association created in 2012 to export the model and the humanist spirit of Franz Liszt to the world.
In 2011, Jean-Yves Clément was appointed Commissioner General of the "Liszt Year" in France by Frédéric Mitterrand, the then Minister of Culture.
In 2012, Jean-Yves Clément received from the Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand the title of officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 2018, he is promoted, by the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen, commander in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Works

Propos-exutoires, Paris,, 1990 De l’aube à midi, Paris, Le Cherche midi, 1999 Variations Chopin : Quarante-huit préludes, Vendœuvres, Lancosme éditeur, 2005 111 notes d’amour : Variations, Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2008 Nuits de l’âme, Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2009 Les Deux Âmes de Frédéric Chopin, first edition Paris,, 2010 ; second edition Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2017 Franz Liszt : La Dispersion magnifique, Arles, Actes Sud, 2011 Le Chant de toi : Ode, Paris, Le Cherche midi, 2012 La Raison des sortilèges : Entretiens sur la musique, first edition Paris,, 2013 ; second edition Paris, Pluriel, 2015 Nietzsche au jour le jour : Un florilège pour tous et pour personne, Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013 De l’aube à midi : Aphorismes, Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013 Suite lyrique, Paris, Le Passeur éditeur, 2013 Alexandre Scriabine : L'Ivresse des sphères, Arles, Actes Sud, Les pensées : Suivies du Dictionnaire des idées reçues, Paris, Le Cherche midi, Glenn Gould ou le Piano de l’esprit, Arles, Actes Sud, 2016

Musical Adaptations of his Work

  • The composer Pierre Thilloy set Jean-Yves Clément's aphorisms to music in his work Mysterium conjunctionis for seven instruments and a mezzo-soprano.
  • Thilloy also wrote a setting of Le Chant de Toi for soprano and piano.