Catherine Massip (born 12 May 1946) is a French curator of libraries and

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

Biography

A student of the

École nationale des chartes The École Nationale des Chartes (; ) is a French ''grande école'' and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the auxiliary sciences of history, historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at the A ...

, Massip obtained there her

archivist An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist can cons ...

palaeographer Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of historical writing systems. It encompasses the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dati ...

diploma in 1973 with a thesis entitled ''Les musiciens à Paris au milieu du XVIIe (1643–1661). Institutions et condition sociale''. She also won first prizes at the

conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...

both in

music history Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of ...

and musicology. She is also the holder of a State doctorate.''Who's who'', 2010, (p. 1486) In 1973, she was appointed a curator at the . She spent her entire career there and headed the department from 1988 to 2012. She was appointed General curator in 1992. She was the president of the Arts Florissants from 1996 to 2011 and secretary-general of the non-profit (''

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'') supporting Les Arts Florissants beginning in 2012. She continues to serve as the treasurer of the Fondation Les Arts Florissants - William Christie. At the same time, she taught modern musicology (16th to 20th centuries) as Director of Studies at the

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

and was a researcher at the Institute of Research on Musical Heritage in France. The Institute became the IReMus (Institut de Recherche en Musicologie) on 1 January 2014. Massip has been president of the French association of musicologists ''

Société française de musicologie Groupe Lactalis S.A. (doing business as Lactalis) is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier S.A. Lactalis is the largest dairy pr ...

'' from 2005 to 2008.

Works

In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals, she is the author of: *''Michel-Richard Delalande. Le Lully latin'', Geneva, Papillon, 2005, 160 p. (Collection Mélophiles). *''Hector Berlioz. La Voix du romantisme'', in collaboration with Cécile Reynaud, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BNF, 2003, 264 p. * *''L’art de bien chanter : Michel Lambert (1610–1696)'', Paris, Société française de musicologie, 1999, 412 p. *''Catalogue des manuscrits musicaux antérieurs à 1800 conservés au département de la Musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France'', under the direction of Cécile Grand and Catherine Massip. A et B. Paris, BnF, 1999. XVII-529 p. *''Au cœur du baroque : les vingt ans des Arts Florissants'', in collaboration with Marie-José Kerhoas, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra, Sept. Dec. 1999. *''Portrait(s) de Darius Milhaud'', under the direction of Myriam Chimènes and Catherine Massip, Paris, BnF, 1998, 151 p. À l'occasion de l'exposition « Les mythologies de Darius Milhaud » April–June 1999, including "Repères chronologiques", (pp. 57–91). *''André Gedalge'', exhibition catalogue, in collaboration with Myriam Chimènes Paris, BnF, 1996. *''Hommage à Olivier Messiaen'', exhibition catalogue, Paris, BnF, 1996. *''Portrait(s) d’Olivier Messiaen'', under the direction of Catherine Massip, Paris, BnF, 1996. 175 p. including ''Regards sur Olivier Messiaen, textes réunis par Catherine Massip'' (pp. 6–37). *''Wagner, le Ring en images'', in collaboration with Elisabeth Vilatte, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BNF, 1994. *''Don Juan'' (commissariat général), exhibition catalogue, Paris, BnF, 1991. *''Le Chant d’Euterpe'', Paris, Hervas (BNP/BN), 1991, 188 p. (Iconographie musicale à la BnF). *''La France et la Russie au Siècle des Lumières'', exhibition catalogue, Paris, Moscow, Leningrad (

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...

), 1987. *''Musiques anciennes (dation de Chambure)'', exhibition catalogue, in collaboration with

François Lesure François Lesure (23 May 1923 – 21 June 2001) was a French musicologist and librarian. He specialized in the life and works of Claude Debussy, but also wrote numerous bibliographies, studies in the sociology of music, and historical French top ...

, Josiane BranRicci, Florence Gétreau (Abondance), Paris, BnF, 1980.

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