Programme

Wednesday, 5^th November 

9 a.m. : INTRODUCTION

• Welcome message
  Karine Buonanno (CMBV)
• General introduction
  Bénédicte Hertz (CMBV – CESR) 
  Thomas Vernet (Royaumont Foundation)

10:30a.m.-1p.m. : ACADEMICISM

Moderator

• Theodora Psychoyou (Sorbonne University – IReMus)

Speakers

• Bénédicte Hertz (CMBV – CESR) 
  Irène Passeron (ImJ-PRG)
  Émilie Roffidal (CNRS – FRAMESPA)
  Music, arts and knowledge in the 18^th century. The age of academies
• Nahoko Sekimoto (Sorbonne University – IReMus)
  Provincial academics and music theory in 18^th century France: case studies
• Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier (UVSQ – University of Paris-Saclay – Dypac)
  Are music academies like other institutions?

2:30pm-5:15pm: INSTITUTIONS

Moderator

• Raphaëlle Legrand (Sorbonne University – IReMus)

Speakers

• Christoph Riedo (University of Genève)
  On the fringes of French music academies: the birth of public concerts in the Old Swiss Confederacy
• Florence Doé de Maindreville (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne – CERHIC)
  Specific characteristics of Amiens music societies in the movement of provincial academies and concerts in the 18^th century
• Xavier Bach (University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès – CLLE – CNRS)
  Pierre-Joan Bernard (Montpellier Municipal Archives)
  The concert before the Concert in Montpellier: Abbé Morel, Intendant Le Nain and Occitan cantatille in the mid-18^th century

Thursday, 6th November

9:30am-12:45pm: CIRCULATION AND IDENTITIES (1)

Moderator 

• Barbara Nestola (CESR – CMBV)

Speakers 

• Peter Weinmann
  Organs and organists between church and academy
• Raphaëlle Legrand (Sorbonne University – IReMus)
  Marie Jeanne Duval Devalon: the role of concert academies in the career of a versatile musician
• Jean-Philippe Goujon (University of Perpignan – UPVD)
  From Bordeaux to Pau. An example of repertoire circulation between two music academies: the Concert des 2d fragmens in score form (ms 3377)
• Gaëtan Naulleau (CMBV – CESR)
  Identify Henri Hardouin's production for the Reims Concert

2:30pm-5:15pm: CIRCULATION AND IDENTITIES (2)

Moderator

• Mélanie Traversier (University of Lille – IRHiS UMR 8529)

Speakers

• Bénédicte Hertz (CMBV – CESR)
  The birth of the concert hall: challenges and definition of a new cultural space
• Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden (University of North Texas)
  Children through Concert regulations
• Mariateresa Dellaborra (Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan)
  The echo of French academies in the Italian press (1720–1770)

Friday, 7^th November

9:30 a.m.: MISFORTUNES AND NEW BEGINNINGS

Moderator

• Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier (UVSQ – University of Paris-Saclay – Dypac)

Speakers

• Thomas Vernet (Royaumont Foundation)
  ‘Handing over management to amateurs is an insult to musicians’: Jean-Jacques Ducharger's idea of provincial concerts, an expression of a singular viewpoint
• Youri Carbonnier (University of Artois – CREHS)
  When the music stops. The end of concert academies

11:15 a.m.

• Nathalie Berton-Blivet (CNRS – IReMus)
  Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier (UVSQ – University of Paris-Saclay – Dypac)
  From data collection to knowledge dissemination

12:00 p.m.: CONCLUSIONS

• Thierry Favier (University of Poitiers – Criham – IUF)

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The AcadéC project (2022–2026), Music Academies or Concerts in France between 1700 and 1770, led by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and supported by the Agence nationale de la recherche, is organising its final symposium, which will open up new avenues of research into the history of public concerts in France.

By conducting a survey covering the whole of France, AcadéC has not only produced a detailed map of more than sixty towns and cities to date, revealing forgotten music academies and concerts, but has also, more broadly, documented the life of these institutions. The variety of collections explored characterised the collection project: archives produced by the academies themselves (musical collections, management and accounting records, etc.), collections from urban and monarchical institutions (municipal deliberations, tax or police sources, urban chronicles, etc.). The processing of data in an interoperable database currently under construction aims to facilitate access to and exploration of this documentation beyond case studies. Thus, the AcadéC project highlights the establishment, in the provinces, of the first form of concert institution, which inspired the creation of the Parisian Concert Spirituel, the amateur concerts of the late 18^th century, and the philharmonic societies of the 19^th century, which multiplied throughout France.