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Some churches for which Charpentier composed

Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed chiefly religious music. The characteristics of this music in inseparable from the characteristics of the religious institution where a given piece was performed. These institutions included the Mercedarian church of Notre-Dame de la Mercy, the church the the Theatines, the Carmelite convent of the rue du Bouloy (or Bouloir), the Sainte-Chapelle of the Palais de Justice, the Cistercian abbey of Port-Royal, the Benedictine abbey of Montmartre, and  two Jesuit churches: Saint-Louis and the Novitiate. Some of these institutions are discussed in my Musings on Charpentier.

Notre-Dame de la Mercy            The Theatines of Sainte-Anne-la-Royale            The Sainte-Chapelle   


       The Carmelites of the rue du Bouloir