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Mourning for a French music writer

RIP

norman lebrecht

July 26, 2021

Friends have informed us of the death, aged 90, of André Tubeuf.

Originally from Smyrna (Izmir), he was a progressive force in charge of musical affairs at the ministry of culture in the 1970s, Tubeuf went on to write hundreds of musical essays as well as lyrical and accessible music biographies, reviving the genre in France.

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