Marcel Marnat (1933 – 17 December 2024) was a French musicologist, journalist and radio producer, responsible for the program of France Musique from 1978 to 1992.

His works on Maurice Ravel and Giacomo Puccini have been regarded as landmark books.

[2] After a short scientific training in medicine,[3] he began to write, self-taught, for various cultural newspapers and magazines[3] (Combat, Jazz Hot, Arts, Les Lettres Françaises, L'Express, Preuves, Le Monde, Disques, Harmonie, Le Monde de la musique, Nouvelle Revue Française).

[2] He wrote on current affairs, art, cinema, literature and made lists new discographic publications.

[1] He also wrote publications about Modest Mussorgsky (1962), Paul Klee (1969), Michelangelo (1974),[1] D. H. Lawrence,[2] and Ludwig van Beethoven.