Brigitte Marger, the first director of the cité de la Musique, which today constitutes one of the two centers of the Philharmonie de Paris, died on Tuesday 3 December in a Parisian hospital, at the age of 87. Elegantly discreet, like the light-toned stole that always flowed over her silhouette, this tall woman had only work on her mind.
Having appeared in the entourage of pierre Boulez (1925-2016),at the beginning of the 1970s,Brigitte Marger took the reins of the two institutions created by the composer and conductor: the Ensemble intercontemporain,from 1982 to 1992,and the City of Music,1995 to 2000.
Brigitte Odiette was born on 14 December 1936 in Boulogne-Billancourt (now Hauts-de-Seine). Graduated in English, trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Sèvres, she taught in Nancy then in Paris, from 1959 to 1963. Brigitte Marger (named after her first husband) was then responsible for the general directorate of cultural relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and holds the position of cultural attaché in London, just like Paul Mondoloni, inspector of the English Language Academy, whom she married a second time.
It was in this context that he met Pierre Boulez in 1967. When the latter, returning to France at the invitation of President Georges Pompidou, laid the foundations of the Institute for Acoustic-musical Research and Coordination (Ircam), he entrusted Brigitte Marger with the direction “external relations” of a UFO of which defined the specificity, in 1974, of the construction site of what was then called “the future Beaubourg center”. IRCAM will be, for you, “a place where composers, instrumentalists, scientists can work together, such as, for example, acousticians or people interested in the way we listen to music, in perception, and where the public can become spectators of all these experiences.
“Bouletian movement”
In 1982, Brigitte Marger became the second general director of the Ensemble intercontemporain (EIC), IRCAMS instrumental twin in the eyes of Pierre Boulez. In December 1991, she was appointed general director of the Cité de la Musique, which opened its doors in January 1995. The possibility was great, former Culture Minister Jacques Toubon tells us today, to entrust official responsibilities to a representative of the “bouletian movement” which he appreciated.
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