The Ranums' Panat Times

Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Patrons

This section talks primarily about institutions and individuals that commissioned special works from Charpentier or with whom he is known to have been in contact.

 it includes materials on:

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

(Click the above link to see some of the facets of this protection)

and

Other patrons who commissioned "extraordinary" compositions:

In this second category you will find the following Musings:

•   My answer to dating the works in the "Roman" notebooks for 1671-1672 ... and some musing about who commissioned these works (where I discuss the dating of specific notebooks and the pieces Charpentier wrote for Saint Nicaise)

•  1672: Charpentier's collaboration with Molière, a re-reading of the evidence

•  1679: M. de Riants Commissions an Opera

•  Charles Le Brun, who commissioned music by Charpentier  (Le Brun may have had village ties to Charpentier's  family.