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Catherine Cessac (born 19 August 1952 in
Catherine Cessac studied at the University and the Conservatory of Bordeaux, and later studied musicology at the Sorbonne. From 1990 to 2003, she was the editor of the Bulletins of the "Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier". In 2004, she was commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture to organize national festivals for the 300th anniversary of the death of composer
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Bordeaux
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) is a French musicologist
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and music publisher.
Biography
Catherine Cessac studied at the University and the Conservatory of Bordeaux, and later studied musicology at the Sorbonne. From 1990 to 2003, she was the editor of the Bulletins of the "Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier". In 2004, she was commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture to organize national festivals for the 300th anniversary of the death of composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'' ''H.146, Marche en rondeau''. This theme is st ...
, as well as the creation of a website by the CMBV, on the life and work of Charpentier. Catherine Cessac is a research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...
(CNRS) and of the workshop of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV). French classical music
French classical music began with the sacred music of the Roman Catholic Church, with written records predating the reign of Charlemagne. It includes all of the major genres of sacred and secular, instrumental and vocal music. French classical st ...
of the seventeenth and eighteenth is the main field of her studies.
In 1988, her book ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier'' received the Académie Charles-Cros
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prize.
Distinctions
* 1998: Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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* 2005: Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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* 2013: Prix des Muses in the Prix du patrimoine category, awarded by the "fondation Singer-Polignac" for ''Itinéraires d'André Campra''
*2011 : Chevalier de La Légion d'Honneur
Publications
*1988: ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier'', second edition extended (EditionsFayard
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2004)
*1995: ''Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
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, une femme compositeur sous le règne de Louis XIV''/ref> (
Actes Sud
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, Arles)
*1998: ''Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (19 December 1676 – 26 October 1749) was a French musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born, and died, in Paris.
Biography
Clérambault came from a musical family (his father and two of his sons w ...
'' (Fayard)
*2003: ''L'Å’uvre de Daniel Danielis
Daniel Danielis (Visé near Liège 1635- Vannes 1696) was a Belgian composer. He studied at Maastricht and was organist at Saint Lambert's Church. Between 1661 and 1681 he served as ''Kapellmeister'' at the court of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. In 1684 he ...
(''1635–1696), Catalogue thématique (CNRS Éditions)
*2003: (avec Manuel Couvreur), ''La Duchesse du Maine (1676-1753). Une Mécène à la croisée des Arts et des Siècles'', éditions Fabrice Prévat, Bruxelles, 2003
*2004: ''Molière et la musique'' (Nouvelles Presses Du Languedoc)
*2005: ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Un musicien retrouvé'' (Mardaga)
*2007: ''Les manuscrits autographes de Marc-Antoine Charpentier'' (Mardaga)
*2007: ''Jean-Féry Rebel
Jean-Féry Rebel (18 April 1666 – 2 January 1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.
Biography
Rebel, a child violin prodigy, was the most famous offspring of Jean Rebel, a tenor in Louis XIV's private chapel. He late ...
, musicien des Éléments'' (Paris CNRS Éditions)
*2012: ''Itinéraires d'André Campra
André Campra (; baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several '' trag ...
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*''2016: Les Histoires sacrées de Marc-Antoine Charpentier,'' Brepols
*2026: ''La duchesse du Maine (1676-1753). Entre rêve politique et réalité poétique'', Paris, Classiques Garnier, « L’Europe des Lumières », 2016.
*2019: Monumentale Marc-Antoine Charpentier, ''Musique pour les comédies de Molière'', édition scientifique, ( CMBV)
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*2019: ''Les Caprices de Ludovise. Un décor retrouvé de l’ancien château de Sceaux'' (en collaboration avec Dominique Brême), Milan, Silvana Editoriale.
*2021: ''Duchesse du Maine, Antoine Houdar de La Motte, Mme de Lambert et Rose de Staal-Delaunay, Lettres,'' Paris, Classiques Garnier.
References
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on Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance
Catherine Cessac
on École Nationale des Chartes
Catherine Cessac
on Symétrie
on CAIRN
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on CNRS Éditions {{DEFAULTSORT:Cessac, Catherine 20th-century French musicologists 21st-century French musicologists French women musicologists French music historians French women historians Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Writers from Bordeaux 1952 births Living people Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research