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– Published on 30/09/2019

Songs from Occitania, French airs from Hebrew sources in Baroque Provence

Jews in Provence, like their Christian neighbours, composed and sang their Hebrew liturgy to popular secular tunes. Between the 16th and 18th centuries their prayer books, manuscripts and printed music [...]

Seminar on the CESR research project ‘The European Stage – Performing Arts, Art of Performance’

The seminar sprang from the idea of encouraging across the board reflection on the CESR research project ‘The European Stage – Performing Arts, Art of Performance’ , bringing together the permanent members [...]

The Music of Actors

Forty years ago, pioneering work, notably Dene Barnett, Eugène Green, Philippe Lénaël and Michel Verschaeve, paved the way to reviving early performance techniques based on treatises on song, grammar and [...]

Atys, Lully

Atys , tragédie en musique de Lully sur un livret de Quinault, suscite un intérêt exceptionnel de la part de Louis XIV, avant même sa création. Le roi assiste à plusieurs répétitions de l'œuvre, plus d’un [...]

CMBV’s playlists

Each month, the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles offers an approximately 90 minutes thematic playlist for an authentic sound immersion at the heart of the musical works, genres, composers and artists of the 17th and 18th centuries’s French music repertoire.

ThéPARis. Les théâtres parisiens sous l'Ancien régime, séminaire de recherche pluridisciplinaire

ThéPARis. Les théâtres parisiens sous l'Ancien régime, séminaire de recherche pluridisciplinaire

ThéPARis-France

Après un cycle de trois séminaires (2019-2022) consacrés à l’exploration des phénomènes de circulation et de transversalité des pratiques entre les théâtres parisiens, le programme de recherche ThéPARis [...]

L'Académie royale de musique, base de données du CMBV

L'Académie royale de musique, base de données du CMBV

Restructuring of the CMBV research database

Laurent Guillo has been working on the restructuring of the CMBV’s research database since 2019. It will merge around 80 databases (of works, sources, events & people) produced by the JLB-NET [...]

L’Histoire de l’Académie royale de musique by François and Claude Parfaict (1741)

This project involves the publication of a PDF digital book in the form of a critical edition of l’Histoire de l’Académie royale de musique by brothers François and Claude Parfaict, a major work [...]

Night scenes in 17th and 18th century theatre

This project stands between the history of the stage and theatre techniques and includes the mindsets and anthropological values attached to the Night. It incorporates political, cultural, dramaturgical, [...]

MUSICOVID/ASTRAMUSICA

To combat the pandemic, in March 2020 public authorities worldwide enforced emergency measures, controlling public spaces and restricting personal freedom, which had serious repercussions on social and [...]

The Concert Academies in 18th century France

The first Académies de musique, Académies de Concert (also simply called Concerts) emerged in the 1710’s and expanded considerably between 1720 and 1750. They rapidly spread across France and instituted [...]

La cantate en France au XVIIIe siècle, projet de recherche du CMBV

La cantate en France au XVIIIe siècle, projet de recherche du CMBV

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 [...]

L'Académie royale de musique, base de données du CMBV

L'Académie royale de musique, base de données du CMBV

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 [...]

Symphonies pour les soupers du roi

Symphonies pour les soupers du roi

Les Soupers du Roi

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 [...]

Musique et liturgie à la Chapelle royale

Musique et liturgie à la Chapelle royale

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 [...]

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) [...]

Les manuscrits Tours-168 et Deslauriers

Les manuscrits Tours-168 et Deslauriers

Choir school music in France

Choir School Music in France: the Tours-168 and Deslauriers manuscripts The Tours-168 and Deslauriers manuscripts of sacred music are rare testimonies of the music practiced in French choir schools [...]

Le projet thématique du CMBV sur les récitals

Le projet thématique du CMBV sur les récitals

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 [...]

Le projet thématique du CMBV sur Lully

Le projet thématique du CMBV sur Lully

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 [...]

Le projet thématique du CMBV sur Salieri

Le projet thématique du CMBV sur Salieri

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 [...]

Ariane et Bacchus

Ariane et Bacchus

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 [...]

Limoges à l’heure du baroque français

Limoges à l’heure du baroque français

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 [...]

Le partenariat international du CMBV avec la République tchèque

Le partenariat international du CMBV avec la République tchèque

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 [...]

Le partenariat international du CMBV avec le Brésil

Le partenariat international du CMBV avec le Brésil

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 [...]

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