Armand Panigel

Armand Panigel (15 October 1920 in Bursa (Turkey) – 28 December 1995 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence aged 75) was a French musicologist and film critic. He was also a historical figure of French radio and television in the fields of classical music and cinema.

After studying at the French high school in Cairo (Egypt), he studied law and mathematics at the University of Montpellier.

He began his career as radio and film producer in Cairo from 1939 to 1944.

A well-known radio man in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, he created, produced and hosted on France Musique the flagship radio show La Tribune des critiques de disques () for 37 years, from 1946 to 1984 (in particular with Antoine Goléa, Jacques Bourgeois and Jean Roy), as well as other broadcasts.

From 1947 to 1964, he founded and directed the magazine Disques, a review of classical record critics. At the same time, the UNESCO commissioned him with indexing, with a view to publishing catalogues, all existing recordings in the world of certain great composers, starting with Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. In 1946, he was also the founding vice-president of the Académie Charles-Cros.

Also passionate about cinema, Panigel worked for French television, as music producer, film director and television presenter for numerous programs: notably Au cinéma ce soir which presented a film preceded by a montage of news from the time of its release, and L'Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (), which today constitutes a considerable mine of interviews with the greatest French directors who were his contemporaries; but also Cinéma-Variations, Ce jour-là, j’en témoigne : chroniques du temps de l’ombre 1940-44 (Histoire de la Résistance) and Portraits de cinéastes et de musiciens (1964–82).

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