Sylvain Fort

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Sylvain Fort
Born	Sylvain Christian Fort (1972-01-31) January 31, 1972 Charenton-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne)
🏳️ Nationality	French
🏫 Education	Higher Normal School (from 1991) Paris-Sorbonne University (until 2000)
💼 Occupation
Known for	Communication consultant, music critic, translator, germanist, essayist
Notable work	General competition (1988)

Sylvain Fort is a communication consultant, Germanist, translator, essayist and French music critic, born in January 31, 1972 in Charenton-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne).

He is advisor to President Emmanuel Macron since May 2017, in charge of speeches and memory.

Biography

Origins and training

Student at the Hélène-Boucher high school in Paris, Sylvain Fort wins a 2nd prize in Greek at the 1988 general competition... He did his preparatory classes at Lycée Henri-IV and joined the École normale supérieure (promotion L1991),. Associate of Classics in 1994, he became a doctor of Germanic studies at Paris-IV University in 2000 under the direction of Pierre Brunel, his thesis being devoted to the French cultural influence in Friedrich von Schiller's youth dramas.

Career

Literature and music

Until 2002, Sylvain Fort taught literature as an assistant-instructor and then as a seconded associate at Paris-IV University and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris..  He directs from 1999 the collection "Head-to-Head" at L'Arche who publishes unrecognized or forgotten essays by classical or contemporary authors, such as Plutarch (translated by himself), Hermann Broch, Frédéric Bastiat, Nicolás Gómez Dávila or Voltaire. In 1996, he undertook the new translation of Friedrich Schiller's great pieces, never redone for several decades, by the L'Arche editions. He has written several works published by Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), including Le Cas Schiller and With Puccini, as well as a biography of Herbert von Karajan noticed by France Musique.  He has collaborated on numerous musical publications such as Diapason, Opéra Magazine or La Lettre du musicien.  He is in particular director of the publication of forumopera.com , which for several years has been the monthly editorial and regular collaborator of Classica. He translates in Actes Sud Nikolaus Harnoncourt's essays in France on romantic and modern music, which he preface, but also the letters of Alban Berg to Hanna Fuchs, never translated into French, edited by the academic Constantin Floros, which expose the secret process of the creation of Berg's Lyric Suite. In March 2017, the Don Carlos de Schiller is given in Strasbourg in the translation of Sylvain Fort by the company Epik-Hotel.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Club des normaliens en entreprise.

Communication and politics

In February 2002, he is recruited in the cabinet of Michel Pébereau, president of BNP Paribas, then becomes vice-president at BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking before joining the BNL-BNP Paribas integration team in Italy. In 2008, he joined DGM Conseil, a communications agency counting among his clients Vincent Bolloré and Bernard Arnault, became in 2010 director of public affairs and communication of Scor, in 2012 director of development at Sia Conseil before co-founding in 2013 with Daphne Claude an agency specialized in corporate and financial communication, Steele & Holt. In 2005, he led the Montaigne Institute's working group on state real estate assets.  In 2006, he is the reporter of the group "Having leaders in the world university competition", directed by Philippe Wahl.

 He was presented as having informally advised Laurent Wauquiez in 2010, which the interested party denied

In 2011, he wrote a report "On Business Leaders and Senior Public Service" on behalf of the Institute of Business , studying new forms of permeability between public and private sectors. The same year, he participated a few times in the informal group which, gathered around the former part of Vivendi Jean-Rene Fourtou, "work in secret to the re-election of Nicolas Sarkozy" during the French presidential election of 2012 and meet Nicolas Sarkozy many times.

Recommended in particular by Mathieu Laine, Sylvain Fort joins Emmanuel Macron's team during the 2017 presidential campaign as communication advisor on August 30, 2016. Some journalists mentioned the controversies he would have had with them during the campaign.  In May 2017, he joined the office of the President of the Republic as counselor for speeches and memory. This new position at the Élysée is responsible for relations with intellectuals and questions related to memory.

Publications

Works

• Fort, Sylvain (2017). Saint-Exupéry Paraclet. ISBN 978-2-36371-201-1. Search this book on
• Fort, Sylvain (2016). Herbert von Karajan: Une autobiographie imaginaire. ISBN 978-2330068523. OCLC 965364896. Search this book on
• Puccini (1st ed.). Actes sud. ISBN 978-2742793297. OCLC 833151557. Search this book on
• Fort, Sylvain (2003). Friedrich Schiller. ISBN 978-2-7011-2996-9. OCLC 402158721. Search this book on
• Avec Puccini. Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-052016-0. OCLC 49900989. Search this book on
• Fort, Sylvain (2002). Les Lumières françaises en Allemagne: Le cas Schiller. ISBN 978-2-13-052837-1. OCLC 231982186. Search this book on
• Fort, Sylvain (2009). Le romantisme. ISBN 978-2081214880. OCLC 859736124. Search this book on
• Quatre-vingt-treize de Victor Hugo : Leçon littéraire (1st ed.). Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2130732396. OCLC 918814544. Search this book on
• Fort, Sylvain (2001). Leçon littéraire sur l'amitié. ISBN 978-2-13-052101-3. OCLC 214967445. Search this book on

Translations

• Harnoncourt, Nikolaus (2014). La parole musicale: Propos sur la musique romantique. ISBN 978-2-330-03407-8. OCLC 919582905. Search this book on
• Alban Berg et Hanna Fuchs suite lyrique pour deux amants. Actes sud. ISBN 9782330026875. OCLC 972832780. Search this book on
• Schiller, Friedrich von (2003). Guillaume Tell: Drame. ISBN 978-2-85181-529-3. Search this book on
• Schiller, Friedrich (2002). De la poésie naïve et sentimentale. ISBN 978-2-85181-513-2. Search this book on
• Éloge de l'oeil : suivi du Peintre et la peinture. L'Arche. ISBN 978-2-85181-489-0. Search this book on
• Cabale et amour : drame bourgeois. L'Arche. ISBN 978-2-85181-425-8. Search this book on
• Les brigands. L'Arche. ISBN 978-2-85181-405-0. Search this book on
• Marie Stuart : tragédie en cinq actes. L'Arche. ISBN 978-2-85181-417-3. Search this book on
• Don Carlos, infant d'Espagne : poème dramatique en cinq actes. L'Arche. ISBN 978-2-85181-397-8. Search this book on

Collective works

• « La vie d'un homme », dans Bertrand Dermoncourt, Tout Verdi, Paris, Robert Laffont, coll. « Bouquins », 2013, 850 p. (ISBN 978-2-221-11545-9, notice BnF n^o FRBNF43668080), p. 3-86
• L'univers de l'opéra : œuvres, scènes, compositeurs, interprètes. R. Laffont. ISBN 978-2-221-11546-6. Search this book on

Articles

• "L'Art du Lied". Diapasone: 64–69. ISSN 1292-0703.

Notices discographies

• (in French) (in English) Karol Beffa, Concerto pour alto et orchestre à cordes, Concerto pour harpe et orchestre à cordes, Dark pour piano et orchestre à cordes, Nuit obscure pour voix et orchestre à cordes, Dédale pour orchestre à cordes (et harpe ad lib.), Rainbow pour piano et orchestre à cordes, Ensemble Contraste, dir. Johan Farjot, Karol Beffa (piano), Emmanuel Ceysson (harpe), Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), Arnaud Thorette (alto), Aparte (AP108)
• (in French) (in English) César Franck, Le Chasseur maudit, Les Djinns, Les Éolides, Variations symphoniques pour piano et orchestre, Orchestre philharmonique royal de Liège, François-Xavier Roth (direction), Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Salle philharmonique de Liège (enregistrement 22-25 juillet 2009), Bruxelles, Paris, Cypres, Abeille Musique, 2012, CYP7612, 18 p. BNF 42579918
• (in French) (in German) (in English) Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Henri Duparc [et al.], Recital at La Monnaie, José van Dam (baryton-basse), Maciej Pikulski (piano), La Monnaie (enregistrement 7 mai 1997), Bruxelles, Paris, Cypres, Abeille Musique, 2012, CYP8604, 23 p. BNF 42584655
• (in French) (in English) Édouard Lalo, Fiesque, Roberto Alagna (Fiesque), Michelle Canniccioni (Léonore), Béatrice Uria-Monzon, (Julie) [et al.], Chœur de la Radio lettone, Sigvards Kļava (chef de chœur), Orchestre national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, Alain Altinoglu (direction), Opéra Berlioz Le Corum (enregistrement 27 juillet 2006), Europe, Universal music, 2011, Deutsche Grammophon 476 454-7, 34 et 58 p. (notice avec Hugh Macdonald) BNF 42512893
• (in French) (in English) Jean-Sébastien Bach, Concertos pour clavecin BWV 1052, 1053, 1055 et 1056, Béatrice Martin (clavecin), Les Folies françoises (ensemble instrumental), Patrick Cohën-Akenine (violon et direction), École supérieure de musique de Catalogne (enregistrement 2-5 janvier 2009), Bruxelles, Paris, Cypres, Abeille Musique, 2011, CYP1661, 19 p. BNF 42380268
• (in French) (in English) Philippe Boesmans, Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne, Dörte Lyssewski (Yvonne), Paul Gay (le roi Ignace), Mireille Delunsch (la reine Marguerite) [et al.], Les Jeunes Solistes (ensemble vocal), Rachid Safir (chef de chœur), Klangforum Wien (ensemble instrumental), Sylvain Cambreling (direction), Opéra Garnier (enregistrement janvier 2009), Bruxelles, Paris, Cypres, Abeille Musique, 2010, CYP463, 39 p. (notices avec Gérard Condé) BNF 42322889
• (in French) (in German) (in English) Franz Schubert, Schwanengesang et autres lieder, Dietrich Henschel (baryton), Fritz Schwinghammer (piano), Salle de musique de La Chaux-de-Fonds (enregistrement octobre 2007), Paris, Naïve Records (Ambroisie), 2009, AM 138, 33 p. (notices et traduction des lieder avec Dietrich Henschel) BNF 41419312

See also

Related articles

• Emmanuel Macron, les coulisses d'une victoire

External links

• Site de Steele and Holt, communication agency that he founded and directs

Others articles of the Topics Classical music AND Opera : List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Others articles of the Topic Classical music : List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Others articles of the Topic Opera : List of prominent operas, List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, List of operas by title, List of operas by composer

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