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Patricia's pages on Marc-Antoine Charpentier

These pages group into several broad categories:

NEW: Comments on articles in the newly-published Actes of the Versailles conference on Charpentier's Autograph manuscripts, 2004

Charpentier the man, and his patrons:

•  Pre-twentieth-century "biographies" of Charpentier

•  Portraits of Charpentier

• The composer's family and acquaintances

•  His Roman experience

•  The man, his education, his family, his friends, his lodgings

•  Churches for which he composed

•  His patrons, not only the Guises but also Le Brun, Riants, and so forth

  and especially:

   The two Guise princesses and how their protection shaped Charpentier's career

There are three related presentations of the chronology of Charpentier's manuscripts:

•  Different facets of the Guises' patronage, year by year

•  Chronologies of his compositions

•  The evidence on which these chronologies are based

The autograph collection of Charpentier's compositions known as "les Mélanges":

•  NEW: Comments on articles in the newly-published Actes of the Versailles conference on Charpentier's Autograph manuscripts, 2004

• Information or Musings about specific works

•  The composer's manuscripts, known as the Mélanges, and how they were compiled

Click one of the above broad topics, and you will reach the master-page of that section of my Charpentier Musings.

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