If the problem of organizing music for your Christmas party seems daunting, take a page from the book of the 17th century Duchesse de Guise and commission your own — or simply throw the products of ...

From a new recording by Musica Antiqua Cologne and conductor Reinhard Goebel, the last two movements — Offertory and Sanctus — from the "Mass for Woodwinds and Strings," by 17th century French ...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier is Donald Macleod's featured composer this week. It’s just a case of bad timing for 17th-century French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier that he happened to be born a decade ...

Revue de Musicologie, T. 70, No. 1 (1984), pp. 37-50 (14 pages) A consideration of the state of scholarship on Marc-Antoine Charpentier (not only studies of his music but editions and recordings of it ...

Lucie Skeaping explores music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who wrote arguably some of the most engaging Christmas music of the French baroque, including the Messe de Minuit. Show more Lucie Skeaping's ...

After his rift with Lully, Molière turned to Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the incidental music for his last productions, including Le Malade imaginaire and Le Mariage forcé. Show more Following his ...

If, in the future, composers commemorate the coronavirus pandemic in musical form, they can look to a model by their French forbear Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704). Among Charpentier’s vast ...