Territories

The Concert Academies

The beginning of the eighteenth century saw the creation of musical societies by knowledgeable music lovers in many French cities. Their goal was “concertation,” meaning musical performance, but also discussion. [...]

Territories

The Cantata in 18th century France

The Cantata is a major poetic and music genre of the 18th century, particularly during the first thirty years. Born in the 17th century and originally imported from Italy, it took many different forms [...]

Territories

The Paris Royal Academy of Music

The Académie royale de musique de Paris, one of the most emblematic institutions of the Baroque period, is closely tied to the birth and development of the opera in France. This project takes several [...]

Territories

ThéParis

A multidisciplinary research seminar co-organised by the CMBV, the Centre for Renaissance Studies (Tours University), Côté d’Azur University and the CTEL (Literature & Performing Arts research centre), [...]

Territories

Musical life in France and in the lands of the Bohemian crown in the 17th and 18th centuries

The project aims to investigate the different strategies and methods of cultural exchange in Europe during the Ancien Régime, and to focus on the (little-known) links between France and the lands of the [...]

Territories

Italian music and Italian musicians in France

Traditionally seen as a counter-model, the Italian musical style actually had a substantial impact on the forming of the French musical style. Italian musicians were on French soil due to circumstance [...]

Workshop

Les livres d’airs de différents auteurs (LADDA)

The 37 Livres d’Airs featuring various composers and published each year between 1658 and 1694 by Robert and later Christophe Ballard forms a corpus of around 1220 airs. They reflect the popularity of [...]

Workshop

Airs de cour

The air de cour was an iconic social musical genre in the late Renaissance and through the first half of the 17th century. It has aroused a great deal of public interest in the last ten years or so, [...]

Workshop

Music for Court Ceremonies

Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi : the nature and role of court music 2019 / 2020 academic year Focusing on the iconic Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi , the CMBV has embarked on a joint 3-year [...]

Workshop

Music for Royal and Dynastic Ceremonies

This research project aims to shed light on the role of music in formal royal ceremonies (funerals, coronations, Te deums, royal entries, etc.), and to see how such music was created to address complex [...]

Workshop

Religious Music in the Sovereign Courts of Europe

This cross-discipline European research project comprises a comparative study of the use of music to create a ‘sound image’ of a Monarch’s religion during the Counter-Reformation across Europe; how it [...]

Workshop

Music and Liturgy in the Royal Chapel

In the wake of Alexandre Maral’s research into the Royal Chapel at Versailles, and drawing on seminars and performance practice instigated by the CMBV, this project will investigate how music was addressed [...]

Workshop

Motets and Liturgy

Focusing on the motet, the iconic musical genre of the Ancien Régime, the project sets out to discover how this ‘modern’ paraliturgical polymorphic music (e.g. chapel motets, grands motets and petits motets) [...]

Territories

Choir school music in France

Choir School Music in France: the Tours-168 and Deslauriers manuscripts  2019 / 2020 academic year The Tours-168 and Deslauriers manuscripts of sacred music are rare testimonies of the music [...]

Theme-based projects

French opera singers

Keen to spot today’s finest baroque singers and highlight neglected French opera music, the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles has created or supported ‘imaginary operas’ and recitals based on well-known [...]

Theme-based projects

Lully across the centuries

The Académie Royale de Musique repertory theatre, somewhat unusually, performed old musical compositions. Lully’s music was played there for over a century between 1673 and 1779. However, from the mid [...]

Theme-based projects

Salieri’s French operas

Antonio Salieri was born in Verona in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He was a major composer during the late baroque and early romantic era. He was a protégé of Gluck and worked essentially at the Habsburg [...]

Teaching projects

Paris CRR

The CMBV and the early music department of the Paris CRR (regional conservatoire) are joining forces to revive Ariane et Bacchus , a little known masterpiece by Marin Marais. The CMBV will be publishing [...]

Teaching projects

Limoges plunges into the French baroque era

Limoges is immersing itself in French music for the next two years! With the CMBV as main partner, topping the bill in 2021 is the stage premiere of a forgotten masterpiece. Over two academic years [...]

CMBV partners worldwide

The Czech Republic

With the Prague summer festival of Early Music and the Collegium Marianum orchestra, the CMBV has created an exemplary Franco-Czech partnership, encompassing research, publications, historically informed [...]

CMBV partners worldwide

Brazil

The first CMBV music week took place in Rio in the autumn of 2015. The venture was co-organised by UNIRIO university baroque orchestra (founded and conducted by flautist Laura Ronaï), in order to introduce [...]

CMBV partners worldwide

Hungary

Since 2014, the CMBV has embarked on a unique partnership in Hungary with the Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir (founded over 25 years ago by György Vashegyi, Hungary’s foremost baroque and classical music [...]