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Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), composer for the Guises, the Jesuits, the Sainte-Chapelle of the Palais

The "new" portrait of Charpentier
Read more about the recently discovered  portrait of Charpentier

See the plaque on the Hotel de Guise honoring Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Go directly to Patricia's pages on Marc-Antoine Charpentier, his life, his compositions

Note: Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier is now available at a sharply reduced price ($35). To order the book from Amazon.com, click the image below:
The Landry portrait of Charpentier

 

My Portraits was written to mesh with, not repeat, the materials in Catherine Cessac's Marc-Antoine Charpentier, the English edition of which  (1995) sometimes can be found by online search: note that it is a translation the first French edition.


Read a review by Zoran Minderovic, comparing the two
editions of Catherine Cessac's Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Learn more about the new book on Charpentier published by the CMBV
and
learn how to obtain the book