Catherine Cessac

Catherine Cessac (born 19 August 1952 in Bordeaux) is a French musicologist and music publisher.

Biography
A picture of Catherine Cessac

Catherine Cessac studied at the University and the Conservatory of Bordeaux, and later studied musicology at the Sorbonne. From 1990 to 2003, she was the editor of the Bulletins of the "Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier". In 2004, she was commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture to organize national festivals for the 300th anniversary of the death of composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, as well as the creation of a website on the life and work of Charpentier.[1] Catherine Cessac is a research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and of the workshop of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV). French classical music of the seventeenth and eighteenth is the main field of her studies.

In 1988, her book Marc-Antoine Charpentier received the Académie Charles-Cros prize.[2]

Distinctions

Publications
  • 1988: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, second edition extended (Editions Fayard 2004)[3]
  • 1995: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, une femme compositeur sous le règne de Louis XIV[4] (Actes Sud, Arles)
  • 1998: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (Fayard)
  • 2003: L'Œuvre de Daniel Danielis (1635–1696), Catalogue thématique (CNRS Éditions)
  • 2003: (avec Manuel Couvreur), La Duchesse du Maine (1676-1753). Une Mécène à la croisée des Arts et des Siècles, éditions Fabrice Prévat, Bruxelles, 2003
  • 2004: Molière et la musique (Nouvelles Presses Du Languedoc)
  • 2005: Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Un musicien retrouvé (Mardaga)
  • 2007: Les manuscrits autographes de Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Mardaga)
  • 2007: Jean-Féry Rebel, musicien des Éléments (Paris CNRS Éditions)
  • 2012: Itinéraires d'André Campra
  • 2016: Les Histoires sacrées de Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Brepols
  • 2019: Monumentale Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Musique pour les comédies de Molière, édition scientifique, (CMBV)
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References
  1. Marc-Antoine Charpentier on culture.fr
  2. Biography of Catherine Cessac and list of publications, on the site of the CNRS
  3. Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  4. Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, une femme compositeur sous le règne de Louis XIV
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