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:

•   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.

 Readers are also referred to "The Guises" in the "Marc-Antoine Charpentier masterpage," above. There they will find pages on the two Guise princesses and how their protection shaped Charpentier's career