André Tubeuf

André Tubeuf (18 December 1930 – 26 July 2021 ) was a French writer, philosopher, and music critic.

Training
Tubeuf was born in Smyrna (today İzmir), Turkey. A condisciple in Beirut, Lebanon, France, of Salah Stétié and Robert Abirached, Tubeuf came to Paris, France, after the war and performed his khâgne at the lycee Louis-le-Grand, where he joined Dominique Fernandez, Michel Deguy, Jacques Derrida and his cousin Pierre-Jean Rémy.

In 1950, Tubeuf was received at the École normale supérieure, rue d'Ulm, where he first followed the teaching of Michel Alexandre (himself a pupil of Alain), then that of Louis Althusser and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and became friends with Gérard Granel.

In 1951, with Maurice Clavel, Tubeuf translated Electra by Sophocles for Silvia Monfort.

An agrégé in philosophy, Tubeuf taught this subject in philosophy class and then in Classes préparatoires littéraires (khâgne) at the lycée Fustel-de-Coulanges in Strasbourg, from 1957 to 1992.

In 1972, he joined the Ministry of Culture in the cabinet of Jacques Duhamel, to deal with musical matters; he pursued this experience in 1975 in the office of Michel Guy.

Writer
From 1976, Tubeuf mainly collaborated with the magazine Le Point, but also at Avant Scène Opéra, Harmonie and Lyrica, then Diapason and finally Classica. In addition, he was a regular lecturer, such as at the Salzburg Festival, and radio broadcaster.

After Romain Rolland, André Suarès and Vladimir Jankélévitch, of whom he was the pupil, he renewed the genre of musical literature in France, escaping the novelistic genre, without falling into musicology.

In addition to his essays on Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Strauss and the lied, Tubeuf wrote profiles of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Claudio Arrau, Hans Hotter, Rudolf Serkin, Arthur Rubinstein, Régine Crespin, Daniel Barenboim, Hélène Grimaud and Cecilia Bartoli.

Honours

 * Commandeur of the National Order of Merit (2009).