A musical radio broadcast hosted by Laure Schnapper every two wednesdays from 9h30 pm to 10 pm on Judaïques FM
Classique vous avez dit classique – November 22, 2017, Judaïques FM (94,8)
Laure Schnapper welcomes Martin Barral, conductor of the Campus d’Orsay orchestra, who will present the CD Musique française avant et après la Grande Guerre, (French Music Before and After the Great War) featuring Fernand Halphen‘s Symphony in C minor and Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.
Laure Schnapper is a musicologist in the G. Simmel Centre in EHESS university where she teaches. She is also president of the European Institute for Jewish Music.
After the publication of her PhD, L’ostinato, procédé musical universel (Champion, 1998), she wrote many articles about music in France in the 19th century, as well as a book on Henri Herz, magnat du piano. La vie musicale en France au XIXe siècle (Editions de l’EHESS, 2011), which received the Prix des Muses award. She also dedicated several articles on “degenerated” music, to the exiled composer Joseph Kosma, and to the composer Fernand Halphen (1872-1917).
In 2017, she directed the publication of the book Du salon au front. Fernand Halphen (1872-1917), compositeur, mécène et chef de musique militaire at the Hermann editions.
