Catherine Cessac

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Catherine Cessac (born August 19, 1952 in Bordeaux ) is a French music historian and music editor.

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Catherine Cessac began her studies at the Conservatory and the University of Bordeaux. She then studied musicology at the Sorbonne University in Paris. From 1990 to 2003 she was editor of the “Bulletins de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier”. In 2004, the French Ministry of Culture entrusted her with the organization of the national celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the death of the composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier , including the creation of a website about the life and work of Charpentier and the constant updating of research findings. Cessac is head of research at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the study studio at the Center de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV). Her main focus is French music of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1988 she received M.-A. Charpentier the Charles Cros Academy Award . As the editor of critical editions, she focuses on works by Charpentier, Sébastien de Brossard , Jean-Féry Rebel , Louis-Nicolas Clérambault , Jean-Baptiste Lully and Henry Desmarets .

Book publications (selection)

  • «M.-A. Charpentier »(1988), 2nd extended edition (Editions Fayard, 2004)
  • "  Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre , une femme compositeur sous le règne de Louis XIV" (Actes sud, Arles, 1995)
  • "N. Clérambault" (Editions Fayard, 1998)
  • «L'Œuvre de Daniel Daniélis (1635–1696), Catalog thématique» (Paris, 2003)
  • "Molière et la musique" (Nouvelles Presses Du Languedoc, 2004)
  • "Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Un musicien retrouvé" (Mardaga, 2005)
  • "Les manuscrits autographes de Marc-Antoine Charpentier" (Mardaga, 2007)
  • "Jean-Féry Rebel, musicien des Élements" (Paris, 2007)
  • "Itinéraires d ' André Campra  " (Mardaga, 2012)
  • "Les Histoires sacrées de Marc-Antoine Charpentier", Brepols (Belgium 2016)
  • "Monumentale Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Musique pour les comédies de Molière  ", édition scientifique, (CMBV 2019)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charpentier website
  2. ↑ Short biography of Catherine Cessac and list of publications on the website of the CNRS
  3. ↑ Catherine Cessac:  Cessac, Catherine. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, supplement for both parts. Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9 , Sp. 100–101 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Cessac, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music historian and music editor
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux