Jean-Victor Hocquard was a French musicologist, and a specialist of Mozart.
Biography
Jean-Victor Hocquard graduated from Metzhigh school and obtained his philosophy degree in Nancy. He was successively professor at Wissembourg, Sélestat and Sarreguemines. During the war, he served on the Maginot line. Imprisoned, released, re-imprisoned, he escaped from Metz at Christmas 1940. After the war, he was a professor of philosophy at the Grenoble, Tournon, Tanger and Altkirchhigh schools. He passed a Doctorate of Arts from the University of Paris in 1956. His thesis was devoted to La pensée de Mozart partially published two years later at Éditions du Seuil, with a small book from the "Solfèges" series, reprinted since 1964 during its fourth reprint and in 1970 for the second edition, and then reprinted regularly. He taught philosophy, but devoted most of his energy to deepening the knowledge of the Viennese musician. His name is considered to be "inseparable from Mozart's.", even more than Alfred Einstein, Jean and Brigitte Massin. These authors having dealt with other studies in Beethoven or Schubert for example, Jean-Victor Hocquard in about ten books, has invested himself entirely for Mozart. From his thesis, he maintained throughout his various studies, the idea that Mozart's specificity resides in a thought of "intrinsically musical character", going even went so far as to consider Mozart as an initiatory guide who, through aesthetic ideals, "would make his music a work of "truth". To do this, he first dismantled the "interpretative overloads" accumulated on the person and the Mozartian work.
Works
Books
La pensée de Mozart, Seuil, 1958 ; rééd. 1991, 740 p.. The book is dedicated in homage to Henri Davenson and in memory of Georges de Saint-Foix, biographer of Mozart.
Écrits et propos du Mozart,, 1988
Mozart, l'unique, Séguier, 1989
Mozart dans ses airs de concerts, Séguier, 1989
Mozart de l'ombre à la lumière, Lattès/Archimbaud, 1993
Les opéras de Mozart, Les Belles Lettres/Archimbaud, 1995, 971 p., Reprend les parutions suivantes :
* Les Noces de Figaro, series Les grands opéras de Mozart,, 1979
* Don Giovanni, series Les grands opéras de Mozart, Aubier Montaigne, 1978
* Cosi Fan Tutte, series Les grands opéras de Mozart, Aubier Montaigne, 1978
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* La Clémence de Titus and youth operas, series Les grands opéras de Mozart, Aubier Montaigne, 1986
L'enlèvement au sérail, series Les grands opéras de Mozart, Aubier Montaigne, 1980
Idoménée, series Les grands opéras de Mozart, Aubier Montaigne, 1982
Mozart, Musique de vérité, Les Belles Lettres/Archimbaud, 1996
