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Patricia's pages on Marc-Antoine Charpentier

These pages group into several broad categories:

A newly identified autograph treatise, "manuscript XLI"

Charpentier the man, and his patrons:

•  Pre-twentieth-century "biographies" of Charpentier

•  Portraits of Charpentier

•  The composer's family

•  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

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":

•  Comments on articles in the newly-published Actes of the Versailles conference on Charpentier's Autograph manuscripts, 2004. (These comments include several Musings on what we can learn from Laurent's Guillo's findings about the printed music paper used by Charpentier; two Musings on Thierry Favier's observations about Charpentier's handwriting; and one on Gaëtan Naulleau discussion of Charpentier's Sonate (H.548).

•  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.

Patricia is pleased to announce that, in the spring of 2010, Pendragon Press agreed to distribute Portraits. Just click this link to Pendragon Press

You can also purchase Patricia's Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier by clicking this link to Amazon.com