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The Guises, and some ways in which they shaped Marc-Antoine Charpentier's creativity

This group of pages provides information about Guise patronage and how it shaped Marc-Antoine Charpentier's artistic creations. These Musings discuss:

•  Charpentier's Funeral Music, 1671-1676
•  1675: A Guise child dies, and the Infant Jesus becomes one of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's principle subjects
•  Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Petite Pastorale" (H. 479), October 5, 1676
•  The "Regular" Life of two devout princesses and how it shaped Charpentier's music
•  At the end of the autograph score of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Les Arts Florissants" comes a "continuation" (suite) in Latin, to honor the Virgin
•  Concerning the historical evidence that shapes "my views" of Marc-Antoine Charpentier as a faithful servant and eloquent musical voice of the Guises
•  1675: Madame de Toscane comes to Paris and Charpentier begins writing oratorios
•  The "Guise Music": some thumbnail sketches of the members of Mlle de Guise's ensemble
•  The Deaths of Mademoiselle de Guise (1688) and Madame de Guise (1696)
•  A working hypothesis: Charpentier's Epithalamio (H. 473) of 1685, to honor the wedding of Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria, was sent to Munich as a gift to the newly-weds

In addition, a few "Fugitive Pieces" provide glimpses of what Mlle Marie de Lorraine de Guise was like as a person:

•  NEW: My article from Histoire et Archives, about renovations to the Hotel de Guise, 1666-67, based on notarial documents
•  NEW: Letters written during the Guise journey in Champagne, 1680
•  Also NEW: A source describing the benediction of her sister as abbess of Montmartre in 1657
• Mlle de Guise and the "Battle of the Church Benches" at Guise
•  The decorative program in Mlle de Guise's country house near Bercy
•  Mlle de Guise's correspondence with Florence
•   Some Guise notarial documents
•   Mlle de Guise and her gallery