A. The Archive

SUMMARY: Unless noted to the contrary, all items in this listing are in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Bnf), site Richelieu, Départment de la Musique (2, rue Louvois). The archives of the Société des Concerts began to arrive at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1975, where they were given the code Don (“gift") 75–405. The card catalogue is largely the work of Jean-Michel Nectoux.

Programs

Programmes Société des Concerts. Four boxes of programs, embracing a virtually complete run for the Sunday concerts and many programs for tour appearances. Also includes handbills, press booklets published after tours, and miscellaneous printed documents.

Vmc 8014. Programmes 7–41e année, 1834–68.

Rés. F. 1666. Liste générale des programmes depuis 1828 [to 1859]. Ms. fr., 55 pp. [Doubtless Elwart’s.]

Administrative Dossiers

D 17257. Liste des abonnés, 1837–1935, 80 vols.: (1) 1837; (2) 1838; (3) 1842; (4) 1842; (5) 1843; (6) 1844; (7) 1845; (8) 1846; (9) 1846; (10) 1847; (11) 1848; (12) 1850; (13) 1850; (14) 1850–51; (15) 1851; (16) 1851–52; (17) 1852; (18) 1852; (19) 1853; (20) 1853–54; (21) 1855; (22) 1856; (23) 1857; (24) 1858; (25) 1859; (26) 1860; (27) 1861; (28) 1862; (29) 1862; (30) 1863?; (31) 1863?; (32) 1872–73; (33) 1873–74; (34) 1873–74; (35) 1874–75; (36) 1874–75; (37) 1875–76; (38) 1875–76; (39) 1876–77; (40) 1876–77; (41) 1877–78; (42) 1877–78; (43) 1878–79; (44) 1878–79; (45) 1879–80; (46) 1879–80; (47) 1880–81; (48) 1880–81; (49) 1881–82; (50) 1881–82; (51) 1882–83; (52) 1882–83; (53) 1883–84; (54) 1883–84; (55) 1884–85; (56) 1884–85; (57) 1885–86; (58) 1885–86; (59) 1886; (60) 1886–87; (61) 1886–87; (62) 1887–88; (63) 1888–89; (64) 1888–89; (65) 1889–90; (66) 1889–90; (67) 1889–90; (68) 1889–90; (69) 1892–93; (70) 1892–93; (71) 1893–94; (72) 1893–94; (73) 1894–95; (74) 1894–95; (75) 1895–96; (76) 1896–97; (77) 1897–98; (78) 1872–89 [sic.]; (79) 1874–90 [sic.]; (80) ca. 1935.

D 17258. Comptabilité, factures, recettes, grands livres, 1843–1935, 8 vols: (1) Comptabilité, 1843–1877; (2) Factures, 1865–85; (3) Exercises, 1902–03; (4) Recettes dépenses, 1877–1935; (5) Grand Livre, 1865–85; (6) Grand Livre, 1885–1905; (7) Recettes, 1925–29; (8) Recettes, 1930–33.

D 17259. Etats des droits des sociétaires, 1863–1967. 8 vols.: (1) 1863–73; (2) 1873–83; (3) 1883–93; (4) 1893–1903; (5) 1903–13; (6) 1913–38; (7) 1938–59; (8) 1959–67.

D 17260. Cahier des sursis des sociétaires, 1/X/1872–VI/1883. Small blue notebooks.

D 17261. Correspondance sociétaires; candidats à la direction, 1885–1941, 9 vols.: (1) Correspondance des sociétaires, 1885–87; (2) Id., 1896; (3) Id.. 1900–01; (4) Candidatures aux succession de Taffanel et de Samuel Rousseau, 1901 [12 items]; (5) Correspondance des sociétaires, c. 1904 [22 items]; (6) Candidats au poste de 2e chef d’orchestre, 1932 [5 items]; (7) Correspondance des sociétaires, 1932–37 [56 items]; (8) Candidats à la succession de Ph. Gaubert, 1938 [31 items]; (9) Correspondance des sociétaires, 1938–41 [38 items].

D 17262. Sociétaires. "Noms des sociétaires des Concerts du Conservatoire / partie de l’orchestre ou de chant / et date de l’Admission / fonctions divers remplis dans la société / cessation des services––Observations.’’ 2 ms. notebooks listing sociétaires from 1828 through 1926,with matriculation numbers to just over 700. See also D 17331. In vol. 2 there is a typewritten alphabetical roster of Sociétaires with their home addresses, c. 1939. The last register, copied from D 17262 and used through the dissolution in 1967, remains at the Orchestre de Paris.

D 17263. Organization de concerts, 1885–1950. Lettres de solistes, compositeurs, agences, correspondance diverse. 37 vols.: (1) Concerts, 1885–87 [58 items]; (2) Concerts, 1896 [9 items]; (3) Concerts, 1900–01 [20 items]; (4) Concerts, 1914 [13 items]; (5) Tournée en Suisse, 1917; (6) Correspondance, 1928–29; (7) Voyages à Frankfurt et à Génève; (8) Courrier, 1932–34; (9) Courrier, 1935–36; (10) Courrier, 1937; (11) Correspondance concerts spéciaux et exposition, 1937; (12) Correspondance, 1938; (13) Correspondance, 1939; (14) Correspondance, 1940; (15) Correspondance, 1941; (16) Festivals Debussy–Ravel, Beethoven, 1941; (17) Correspondance, 1942–44; (18) Concerts éducatifs, 1942–43; (19) Programmes soumis à la censure, 1940–44; (20) Correspondance Valmalète, 1943–44; (21) Correspondance diverse, 1945; (22) Correspondance avec les agences, 1945; (23) Correspondance diverse, 1946; (24) Correspondance Valmalète, 1946; (25) Correspondance. Kiesgen, 1946; (26) Correspondance Arts et Lettres, etc., 1947; (27) Correspondance Valmalète, 1947; (28) Correspondance Kiesgen, 1947; (29) Correspondance Théâtre des Champs–Élysées, 1948; (30) Correspondance Valmalète, 1948; (31) Correspondance Kiesgen, 1948; (32) Correspondance Valmalète, 1949; (33) Correspondance Kiesgen, 1949; (34) Correspondance Valmalète, 1950; (35) Correspondance Kiesgen, 1950; (36) Tournée USA, 1918; (37) Tournée Suisse & Europe centrale, 1923.

D 17264. Dossiers divers, 19 vols.: (1) Contentieux, 1836–70, mostly legal documents attaching members’ salaries, delivered by huissiers of the Cour de Justice, 35 [33] pieces (nos. 1–2 lacking); (2) Places d’honneur, 1852–1906; (3) Impôts, 1922–64; (4) Billets à prix réduit, 1885–1940; (5) Subventions, 1829–1960; (6) Assurances, 1869–1950; (7) Guerre, 1939–45, questions divers [15 items]; (8) Réclamations, 1834–1938; (9) Bail de la salle, 1882–1966; (10) Service de presse 1855–1946; (11) Editions de programmes, 1885–1941; (12) Location d’instruments, 1885–1941; (13) Matériel d’orchestre, 1901–33; (14) Droits d’auteur, 1867–1966; (15) Billets de concert, 1836–56; (16) Carnets d’addresses; (17) Radiodiffusion, 1931–67; (18) Note sur l’origine de la Société; (19) Divers: Médailles, sculptures, etc.

D 17267. Catalogue de la bibliothèque (S–Z). Apparently the only preserved volume of the library catalogue.

D 17329. Sociétaires. Feuilles de présence et rétributions, 1828–1967, 3 vols.: (1) 1828–85; (2) 1928–50; (3) 1951–67.

D 17330. Sociétaires, correspondance relative à leur carrière, 1830–1948 [recte 1965]: miscellany of autograph letters from sociétaires, mostly letters of request appointment, leave of absence, and retirement, with individual dossiers on the election of George-Hainl (1863) and administrative difficulties with Charles Münch and Jean Savoye (1946–48).

D 17331. Sociétaires. Registres d’inscriptions, 1828–1924, 5 vols.: (1) Listes annuelles, 1846–65 [9 notebooks used by the Comm. pers.:1846–47, 1847–48, 1849–50, 1851–52, 1855–56, 1856–57, 1857–58, 1861–62, 1864–65]; (2–3) États de service des dames du chœur, 1897–1917; (4) Registres d’inscriptions, 1828–1924; (5) Id., 1828–1875. See also D 17262 and the note concerning the Orchestre de Paris, below.

D 17332. Comptabilité, journal, 1889–1967, incomplete. 6 vols.: (1) 1889–1911; (2) 1936–37; (3–6) 1943–67.

D 17333. Comptabilité 1828–1967, pièces et livres divers, 13 vols.: (1) 1828–42; (2) 1880–1907; (3) 1907–30; (4–13) 1940–67.

D 17334. Comptabilité brouillard, 1939–67, 6 vols. (1–6)

D 17335. Comptabilité, grand livre, 1945–67, 8 vols.: (1) 1943–44; (2) 1945–48; (3) 1948–51; (4) 1951–55; (5) 1955–58; (6) 1959–61; (7) 1962–65; (8) 1966–67.

D 17336. Caisse de prévoyance, 1842–1924. 6 vols.: (1) Procès verbaux, 1842–86; (2) Correspondance au Sécrétaire, 1850–74; (3) Rapports au Sécrétariat, 1883–1900; (4) Bordereaux d’agents de change, 1835–74; (5) Correspondance et papiers divers 1837–80 and 1933–65; (6) Comptes rendus annuels, 1843–1924, 30 fasc. incompl.

D 17337. Organisation des concerts, 1828–1967. 10 vols.: (1) Papiers, 1828–1900, including major sources for 1828–38; (2) Papiers, c. 1900–31 [Astruc and the Trocadéro concert of February 1912; folder Amérique 1918–19]; (3) Correspondance Arts et Lettres, 1947–67 [repertoire lists submitted to qualify for subventions]; (4) Correspondance Valmalète, 1960–67; (5) Correspondance diverse, 1947–66; (6) Contrats d’engagement, 1950–66; (7) Tournées à l’étranger, 1951–59: Edinburgh Festival (September 1949), Spain (March 1951), Switzerland (March 1956), Vienna (1958, failed), Germany (1959, failed); (8) Festival Toulouse; (9) Festival Besançon; (10) Festival Aix-en-Provence. [Vols. 4–7 together.]

D 17338. Actes de fondation, 1828. Ms. fr., 8 pièces (1–8 [loose; numberings assigned here by DKH]).

(1) Decree, 15 February 1828; (2) fair copy of same; (3) procès–verbal of Assemblé Générale of 4 March 1828,  with signatures of the founding members; (4) agreement of former students to participate; similar document; (5) Règlement in 52 articles, signed by Rogé and his commission: 3 bifolios; (6) Règlement in 54 articles, signed copy of the Statutes of 5 January 1834 (Règlement), bound with blue ribbon; (7) Id. in 73 articles, post 1837 pre 1841, after adoption of caisse; bound in red cord; (8) mastercopy Bonnaire’s statutes of 1841, copy I, with all members listed.

D 17339. Actes de dissolution, 1967.

D 17340. Statuts. Questions statutaires et syndicales, 1829–1966.

D 17341. Secretary’s reports, 1830–1960. [Card says 1830–1909; wrongly.] Very incomplete. Most are ms.; some printed, the last typescript. 44 pieces.

     1830 (17 June 1830, Meifred); 1832 (13 May 1832, Rogé); 1833 (19 May 1833, C. M. Plantade); 1834 (4 May 1834, C. M. Plantade); 1837 (15 May 1837); 1843–44 (Meifreid, printed); 1861–62 (Gautier); 1863–64 (8 May 1864; Lebouc); 1864–65 (7 May 1865; Lebouc, bound with previous); 1865–66 (Lebouc); 1866–67; 1867–68 (Lebouc); 1868–69 (Lebouc); 1869–70 (A. Viguier); 1871–72 (15 January 1872, A. Viguier); 1873–74 (26 May 1874, A. Viguier); 1874–75 (18 May 1875, A. Viguier); 1875–76 (14 May 1876, Taffanel); 1876–77 (15 May 1877, Taffanel); 1877–78 (15 May 1878, Lebouc); 1878–79 (14 May 1879, Lebouc, printed, with printed report of the Caisse de Prévoyance); 1879–80 (19 May 1880, Taffanel, printed); 1880–81 (18 May 1881, Taffanel); 1881–82 (20 May 1882, Viguier); 1882–83 (22 May 1993, Viguier); 1883–84 (20 May 1884, Taffanel); 1884–85 (23 May 1885, Taffanel); 1887–88 (31 May 1888, Ferrand); 1888–89 (25 October 1888, 26 April 1889, 29 May 1889, all Ferrand); 1889–90 (28 May 1890, Taffanel); 1890–91 (29 May 1891, Taffanel); 1893–94 (26 May 1894, Ed. Nadaud); 1894–95 (26 May 1895, Ed. Nadaud); 1895–96 (30 May 1896, P. Chavy); 1898–99 (30 May 1899, Alb. Vernaelde); 1904–05 (26 May 1905, A. Seitz); 1905–06 (22 May 1906, A. Seitz); 1906–07 (24 May 1907, A. Seitz); 1907–08 (29 May 1908, Th. Heymann); 1908–09 (26 May 1909, Th. Heymann); 1961–62 (26 May 1962, Huot, typewritten transcript).

D 17342. Assemblées Générales, ms. 6 vols. (1–6)

     These are quite similar to the typescripts in contents. They are ledger-type bound journals of some 200 lined pages. Where they duplicate the typescripts, the typescripts seem a little fuller, but there are no substantive differences. Note that Ordres du Jour, tipped in, tend to have complete texts of modifications of statutes attached.

     (1) Assemblées Générales, 23 May 1903 –24 April 1923. 200 pp. Ms. Contents: AG 23 Mai 1903, pp. 1–13; 4 June 1903, pp. 14–18; 26 May 1904, pp. 19–28; 9 June 1904, pp. 29–37; 29 Nov. 1904, pp. 38–41; 26 May 1905, pp. 42–49; 30 December 1905, pp. 50–65; 22 Mai 1906, pp. 66–74; 24 May 1907, pp. 75–82; 29 May 1908, pp. 83–94; 5 June 1908 (suite), pp. 95–98; 26 Octobre 1908 (election of 1r chef), pp. 99–102; 26 May 1909, pp. 103–106; 13 May 1910, pp. 107–117, 11 November 1910 (examen de la situation d’un sociétaire), pp. 117–26; 26 May 1911, pp. 127–36; 22 May 1912, pp. 137–40; 23 May 1913, pp. 141–45 with loose draft; 2 May 1914, pp. 145–50; 5 June 1914 151–62; [blue line and then: Pour la periode de guerre, voir registres des p-v du Com. p. 247]; 30 May 1919, pp. 163–70 (letter of 5 May 1919 tipped in); 24 January 1920 extraordinaire (election of vice-president), p. 171; 27 May 1920, pp. 172–75; 12 November 1920, p. 175; 27 May 1921, pp. 000–00; 15 October 1921 extraordinaire, pp. 000–00; 24 May 1922, pp. 180–89 (materials tipped in), 19 December 1922, pp. 190–95; 24 April 1923,  pp. 196–99.

     (2) Assemblées Générales, 18 May 1923–27 December 1942. 235 pp., 236–44 blank. Ordres de Jour and other documents tipped in; in general much more comprehensive than later, when there were typewritten reports. All ms. Contents: 18 May 1923 extraordinaire, pp. 1–12: resignation of H. Boucher as comm. pers., also a petition; 5 June 1923 extraordinaire pp. 9–12: candidates for 2d chef; 12–13 October 1923 extraordinaire, pp. 13–14: concours for 2nd chef; 16 February 1924 extraordinaire, pp. 15–19: à l’issue du répétition; 24 May 1924, pp. 20–27; 19 May 1925, pp. 28–37; 6 March 1926 extraordinaire, p. 37; 22 May 1926, pp. 38–42; 23 November 1926 extraordinaire, pp. 43–47; 30 May 1927, pp. 48–57; 21 January 1928 p. 58; 8 May 1928, pp. 59–64 and addendum p. 65; 15 March 1929 extraordinaire, p. 66; 11 May 1929, pp. 67–79; 10 December 1929 extraordinaire, pp. 80–81; 23 May 1930, pp. 82–89; 22 May 1931, pp. 90–96; 20 October 1931, pp. 96–103; 21 May 1932, pp. 104–13; 10 December 1932 extraordinaire, p. 113; 27 May 1933, pp. 114–23; 17 May 1934 pp. 123–31; 18 May 1935 pp. 131–39; 4 April 1936 extraordinaire, pp. 139–48; 16 May 1936, pp. 149–62; 9 January 1937 extraordinaire, pp. 163–64; 22 May 1937 pp. 165–73; 31 March 1938 extraordinaire, pp. 174–76; 10 May 1938 extraordinaire, pp. 178–89; 27 May 1938 pp. 190–98; 26 April 1939 extraordinaire, pp. 199–200; 13 June 1939, pp. 201–03; [no 1940]; 31 January 1941 extraordinaire, pp. 204–05; 31 March 1941, pp. 206–08; 23 October 1941 extraordinaire, pp. 209–10; 16 November 1941 extraordinaire, pp. 211–20; 29 March 1942 extraordinaire, pp. 221–22; 12 June 1942, pp. 223–27; 23 December 1942 extraordinaire, pp. 228–35.

     (3) Assemblées Générales, 26 June 1943–10 June 1956. 200 pages, all filled. Ordres du Jour tipped in. Contents: 26 June 1943, pp. 1–10; 10 June 1944, pp. 11–22; 29 June 1945, pp. 23–33; 28 March 1946 extraordinaire, pp. 34–40: resignation of committee; 30 June 1946, pp. 41–50; 29 September 1946, extraordinaire, pp. 51–57: affaire Munch; 19 February 1947 extraordinaire, pp. 58–62: Radio; 8 June 1947, pp. 63–77; 15 June 1947, pp. 78–82; 6 June 1948, pp. 93–102; 7 November 1948 extraordinaire, pp. unnumbered: demission of Savoie; 12 June 1949 pp. 103–09; 20 November 1949 extraordinaire, pp. 110–15; 11 June 1950, pp. 116–27; 3 June 1951, pp. 128–39; 8 June 1952, pp. 140–46; 31 May 1953, pp. 147–55; 18 December 1954 extraordinaire, p. 156: revision of Statuts; 30 May 1954, pp. 157–73; 5 June 1955, pp. 174–80; 10 June 1956, pp. 181–200.

     (4) Assemblées Générales, 26 May 1957–5 December 1961. Pp. 1–76 filled; 77–200 blank. Mimeographed Ordres du Jour tipped in. Contents: 26 May 1957, pp. 1–8; 11 May 1958, pp. 9–18; 30 May 1959, pp. 19–25; 28 May 1960, pp. 26–36; 8 January 1961, pp. 37–51 (= typescript); 27 May 1961, pp. 52–55 (= typescript); 5 December 1961 extraordinaire, pp. 65–76.

     (5) Assemblées Générales, 26 May 1962–31 January 1965. Pp. 1–85 filled. Every page stamped by the Prefecture de Police, Direction Administrative, and visaed front and back, conforming to article 31 of decree of 16 August 1901: “Registre / Cinquante feuillets / 24-II-62, Paris.” Contents: 26 May 1962, pp. 1–36 (= typescript); 12 May 1963; pp. 37–52 (= typescript); 7 June 1964, pp. 53–77 (= typescript); 31 January 1965, pp. 78–85 (= typescript, but marked “suite au débat de 7 June 1964”).

      (6) Longhand transcript, presumably from tape, of Assemblée Générale of 30 May 1965.

D 17343. Assemblées Générales, typescripts. 1932–67. 51 fasc. These generally do not contain the texts of the secretary’s and treasurer’s reports or of documents, particularly correspondence, cited during the discussion; these are found in other dossiers. Some bound in heavy paper; later ones in paper folders, often in two copies. The later ones have secretary–general’s reports and sometimes the Ordre du Jour in the folder. 51 items, some grouped in envelopes, some loose: call by date.

(envelope 1) 23 May 1930; 21 May 1932 (2 copies); 27 May 1933; 17 May 1934 (2 copies); 18 May 1935; 16 May 1936; 9 January 1937; 22 May 1937 (2 copies); 31 March 1938 (2 copies; Gaubert resignation); 10 May 1938 (2 copies); 27 May 1938 (2 copies); 26 April 1939 (2 copies), [13 June 1839, 31 January 1941 appear to be lacking].

(envelope 2 appears to have been discarded or misplaced)

(envelope 3) 16 November 1941; [no 29 March 1942]; 12 June 1942; 27 December 1942; 26 June 1943; 10 June 1944; 29 June 1945; 28 March 1946 [note only; no typescript]; 30 June 1946; 29 September 1946; 19 February 1947; [no 8 June 1947]; 15 June 1947.

(envelope 4) 6 June 1948, 7 November 1948, 12 June 1949, 20 November 1949 (2 copies), 11 June 1950 (2 copies).

(envelope 5) 3 June 1951; 8 June 1952; 31 May 1953; 30 May 1954; 18 December 1954 (ms. notes only); 5 June 1955; 10 June 1956; 26 May 1957; 11 May 1958 ; 30 May 1959; 28 May 1960.

(envelope 6) 8 January 1961; 27 May 1961; 5 December 1961; 26 May 1962; 12 May 1963; 7 June 1964; 31 January 1965; 30 May 1965; 9 January 1966; 24 April 1966; 21 June 1967.

D 17344. Comité: Correspondance. Register of Minutes de lettres, 1833–38 and some to 1847; drafts 1836–38; copies of letters, 1861–62ff.

D 17345. Comité et assemblées générales. Procès-verbaux des séances du comité 1828–1966 et des Assemblées Générales, 1828–1906. Ms. frc. 24 vols.: (1) 14 November 1828–29 December 1834; (2) 6 Janary 1835–28 December 1840; (3) 1841–45; (4) 1845–50; (5) 1850–57; (6) 1857–66; (7) 1866–71; (8) 1871–73; (9) 1874–78; (10) 1878–84; (11) 1884–89; (12) 1889–94; (13) 1894–98; (14) 1898–1901; (15) 1901–03; (16) 1903–06; (17) 1907–11; (18) 1911–20; (19) 1920–26; (20) 1926–31 [1931–34 lost by SdC]; (21) 1934–44; (22) 1944–60; (23) 1960–64; (24) 1965–67.

D 17346. Concerts hors série, 1948–67, 3 vols. (1–3).

D 17347. Musique de film, 1936–66.

D 17348. Enregistrements, 1927–67.

D 17350. Association des Amis de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire: Statuts et procès-verbaux des assemblées générales et des réunions de 1943 à 1947. Ms. 23 pp.

D 17351. Correspondance d’abonnés, 1848–71 and ca. 1912–13, 57 pièces.

D 17352. Sociétaires. Sécurité sociale, 1938–67. 9 vols. (1–9).

D 17353. Comptabilité, divers, 1945–67, 8 vols. (1–8).

Orchestre de Paris. The Orchestre de Paris naturally retained materials that were needed for an orderly transition. Among these are the last officer Register of Personnel, identical in appearance and substance to D 17262 and D 17331 (5) and (4) but extending through the dissolution. Additionally there are:

• A manuscript register for the Social Security records, documenting closure of Social Security accounts upon separation.

• A mimeographed roster of personnel in 9 March 1973, giving full names, birthdates and birthplaces of Orchestre de Paris personnel, including former members of the Société des Concerts.

• A photocopied sheet “MUSICIENS ENTRÉS ET SORTIS DU 1/12/85 au 1/12/90&"#148;documenting retirements through that of Michel Debost.

Other Manuscripts

A number of the ms. lettres autographes to and from the most celebrated figures have been moved to bound miscellanies arranged by the individual’s name, e.g., Mus. lettres aut. Habeneck.

[NOTE (2019): a significant number of letters to the Société, often from composers seeking performances, has been digitized for Gallica: search there "Société des Concerts."]

• ms. 17669. The livre d’or of the Société des Concerts.  See Gallica.

• mss. 17463–67. Berlioz.

• ms. 17472–74. Gluck copies by Deldevez: 72: “Ballet des ombres heureuses”; 73: Armide: Air sicilienne; 74: Iphigénie en Aulide (Prélude – Andantino – Gavotte) [acq. 31-I-1973].

• ms. 17475. Carl Schwenke: Messe à 5 voix et orchestre en Mi (parts) [acq. 31-I-1973]. Benedictus perf. 15 April 1838, see program.

• ms. 17476. Friedrich Schneider: Symphony in B Minor [acq. 2-II-1973]. See title page. Not perf. by Société des Concerts.

• ms. 17664–68. Berlioz.

• ms. 17714. Conradin Kreutzer: Ouverture à grand orchestre [acc. 23-VI-1977]. Perf. 26 March 1843; see program.

• ms. 17995. Berlioz. Te Deum [acq. 6-I-1982; moved from an earlier shelfmark in the D series].

• ms. 18477. Louis Vierne: Symphonie pour orchestre [acq. 20-X-1975].

• ms. 18558. Marivaux (text): L’École des mères.

• ms. 19209. Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ [acq. 2-X-1982; moved from an earlier shelfmark in the D series].

Performance Material

D 17500s. Manuscript and printed parts and some scores, nearly all bearing the rubber stamp of the Société des Concerts. Here is to be found, among other treasures, the majority of Berlioz’s orchestral library. (See Holoman, “Orchestral Material from the Library of the Société des Concerts” and “Reconstructing a Berlioz Sketch”; in B., below; also Holoman, Catalogue of the Works of Berlioz (where sets not by then catalogued at the Bibliothèque Nationale are identified as F-Psoc) in E., below.

D 17593. Haydn: Symphonie (inédite) en ut majeur (op. 82). Deldevez’s conducting score, with his assessment of the work’s provenance bound in the front.

B. Source Studies of the Société des Concerts  

Bernard, Élisabeth, “A Glance at the Archives of Some Parisian Orchestral Societies,” 19th-Century Music 7 (1983), 104–06 (trans. D. Kern Holoman). 

—— “Abonnnés à la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire en 1837, Les” in Music in Paris in the Eighteen Thirties / La Musique à Paris dans les années mil huit cent trente, ed. Peter Bloom (Stuyvesant, New York, 1987), pp. 41–54. 

—— [as Delafon-Bernard], “Habeneck et la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire: un destin exemplaire,” in Le Conservatoire de Paris, des Menus-Plaisirs à la Cité de la Musique, 1795–1995, ed. Anne Bonngrain et al. (Paris, 1996),  pp. 97–116.

—— “Pianistes invités à la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire,” Avant-scène: Musique 3 (1984), 120–27.

Cordey, Jean, La Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Notice historique par Jean Cordey, conservateur de la Bibliothèque et du Musée de l’Opéra (Paris: au siège de la Société, 2 rue du Conservatoire, July 1941).

Cristal, Maurice, “Les Concerts du Conservatoire,” Le Ménestrel 37 (6, 13, 20 March 1870), 107–09, 117–18, 124–25. 

Curzon, Henri de, L’Histoire et la gloire de l’ancienne salle du Conservatoire de Paris (1811–1911) (Paris, 1917). Eng. transl. as “History and Glory of the Concert-Hall of the Paris Conservatory,” Musical Quarterly 3 (1917), 304–18. 

Daines, Matthew, “The Société des Concerts, 1980–1918: the Salle des Concerts and the State” (M.A. thesis, University of California, Davis, 1992). 

Dandelot, Arthur, La Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de 1828 à 1897: les grands concerts symphoniques de Paris, with illustrations (Paris: G. Havard fils, 1898); 2nd edn. titled La Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (1828-1923), avec une étude historique sur les grands concerts symphoniques avant et depuis 1828, pref. Philippe Gaubert, without illustrations (Paris: Delgrave, 1923). 

Deldevez, E.-M.-E., La Société des Concerts, 1860–1885 (Conservatoire national de musique) (Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1887). Modern edn., ed. and annotated Gérard Streletski (Heilbronn: Musk-Edition Lucie Galland, 1998). See also Deldevez in C., below. 

Devriès-Lesure, Anik, “Cherubini directeur du Conservatoire de musique et de déclamation,” in Le Conservatoire de Paris, des Menus-Plaisirs à la Cité de la Musique, 1795–1995, ed. Anne Bongrain et al. (Paris, 1996),  pp. 39–96.

Elwart, Antoine, Histoire de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire Impérial de Musique, avec dessins, musique, plans, portraits, notices biographiques, etc. (Paris: S. Castel, 1860); 2nd edn. augm. des programmes des concerts donnés depuis 1860 jusqu'a 1863 inclusivement (Paris: S. Castel, 1864). 

Holoman, D. Kern, “Orchestral Material from the Library of the Société des Concerts,” 19th-Century Music 7 (1983), 106–18.

—— “Orchestre de Paris,” in Symphony Orchestras of the World: Selected Profiles, ed. Robert R. Craven (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987), 100–07. 

—— "Reconstructing a Berlioz Sketch," Journal of the American Musicological Society 28 (1975), 125-30.

Kelly, Thomas Forrest, “Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Sunday, 5 December 1830, 2 P. M..” in First Nights: Five Musical Premieres (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 180–255 (includes considerable documentation of the first years of the Société des Concerts). 

Lassabathie, Théodore, Histoire du Conservatoire impérial de musique et de déclamation, suivie de documents recueillis et mis en ordre (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1860).

Mary, Annie, La Société des Concerts du Conservatoire: Étude historique, 1919–39, 6 vols. (Mémoire, musicologie, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, 1977). 

Nectoux, Jean-Michel, Association pour le 150e anniversaire de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (Paris, 1978), an exhibition catalogue. See also the souvenir program for the anniversary concert, “Hommage à la Société des Concerts,” Orchestre de Paris, 14 January 1979. Copy: Bnf Mus. 4o Vm pièce 618. 

—— “Trois Orchestres parisiens en 1830: L’Académie Royale de Musique, le Théâtre-Italien et la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire,” in Music in Paris in the Eighteen Thirties / La Musique à Paris dans les années mil huit cent trente, ed. Peter Bloom (Stuyvesant, New York, 1987), pp. 471–507. 

Pierre, Constant, Le Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation: documents historiques et administratifs (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1900).

Prod’homme, J. G., “Music and Musicians in Paris during the First Two Seasons of the War,” Musical Quarterly 4 (1918), 135–60. 

—— and E. de Crauzat, Les Menus Plaisirs du Roi: L’École Royale et le Conservatoire de Musique, ser. Paris Qui Disparait (Paris: Delgrave, 1929).

Salinger, Nicole, ed., Orchestre de Paris (Paris, 1987).

Vernaelde, Albert, “La Société des Concerts et les grandes associations symphoniques,” in Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire, ed. Albert Lavignac and Lionel de La Laurencie (Paris: C. Delagrave, 1913–31), II/6 (c. 1930), 3684–714. 

C. Memoirs, etc., of the Principals  

Adam, Adolphe, Derniers souvenirs d'un musicien, collection Michel Lévy (Paris: M. Lévy, 1859).

Astruc, Gabriel, Le Pavillon des fantômes (Paris: B. Grasset, 1929; modern edn. Paris: P. Belfond, 1987).

——Berlioz, Hector, Correspondance générale, gen. ed. Pierre Citron

Critique musicale, ed. Yves Gérard et al, 3 vols. to date (Paris, 1996– ): vol. 1, xxx, vol 2. (1845-1836)

—— Mémoires de Hector Berlioz, etc. (Paris, 1870) and many later edns. and translations. 

Chopin, Frédéric, Correspondance de Frédéric Chopin, ed. Bronislas Édouard Sydow, 3 vols. (Paris: Richard-Masse, [1953-60]; rev. edn. 1981).

Cocteau, Jean, Portraits-Souvenir: 1900-1914, illustrations by the author (Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset, 1935).

Coppola, Piero, Dix-sept ans de musique à Paris, 1922–1939 (Lausanne, 1944), rpt. ed. Alain Pâris (Paris and Geneva, 1982).

Dancla, Charles, Notes et souvenirs, suivie du catalogue de ses œuvres et de la liste des violonistes célèbres dont les œuvres sont intéressantes et utiles à travailler (Paris: Delamotte, 1893; 2nd edn. Paris, 1898). Eng. transl. as Notes and Souvenirs, transl. Samuel Wolf (Linthicum Heights, Maryland: Swand Publications, 1981). 

    See also Dancla in E., below.

Deldevez, E.-M.-E., Art du chef d'orchestre, L’, (Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1878). Modern edn ed. and ann. Jean-Philippe Navarre (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1998). 

—— Curiosités musicales. Notes, analyses, interprétation de certaines particularités contenues dans les œuvres des grands maîtres (Paris: Firmin-Didot frères et Cie., 1873). See especially "Catalogue des symphonies de J. Haydn," pp. 30–51. 

—— De l’Exécution d’ensemble (Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1888). Modern edn ed. and ann. Jean-Philippe Navarre (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1998).

—— Mes Mémoires (Le Puy: Marchessou fils, 1890). Also Le Passé à propos du présent; faisant suite à Mes Mémoires (Paris: Imp. Chaix, 1892).

     See also Deldevez in E., below, 

d’Ortigue, Joseph, see Ortigue, Joseph d'.

Gautier, Eugène, Un Musicien en vacances: études et souvenirs (Paris, A. Leduc, [1873]).

Landowski, Marcel, Batailles pour la musique, after interviews with Édith Walter (Paris:  Seuil, 1979).

——  La Musique n’adoucit pas les mœurs (Paris: P. Belfond, 1990).

Mendelssohn, Felix, Letters from Italy and Switzerland, Eng. transl. Lady Wallace (London: Longman, Green, etc., 1862 and many subsequent edns.).

-----, Felix Mendelssohn: A Life in Letters, ed. Rudolf Elvers, Engl. transl. Craig Tomlinson (New York: Fromm International, 1986; London: Cassell, [1989]; paperback 1990).

Münch, Charles, Je suis chef d'orchestre, ser. Mon Métier ([Paris]: Éditions du Conquistador, [1954]; rpt. [Strasbourg]: Société des amis de la musique de Strasbourg, [1991]); modern edn. with treatises and related texts of Berlioz, Wagner, Weingartner, and Walter, ed. Georges Liébert as L’Art du chef d’orchestre (Paris, 1988). Eng. transl. Leonard Burkat as I Am a Conductor (New York: Oxford University Press, 1955; rpt. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978). (Ger. transl. Suzanne Oswald as Ich bin Dirigent  (Zürich: Verlag der Arche, 1956).

Ortigue, Joseph d', “Société des Concerts,” in Le Balcon de l’Opéra (Paris: E. Renduel, 1833; rpt. Geneva: Minkoff, n. d.) pp. [333]–76 (reviews of concerts of 1831–33, largely Beethoven).

Saint-Saëns, “La Salle de la rue Bergère” and “Le Vieux Conservatoire,” in École buissonnière: notes et souvenirs (Paris: P. Lafitte, 1913), pp. 33–47. Eng. transl. (abridged) as Musical Memories (London and Boston, 1919; rpt. New York, 1969).

—— “Société des Concerts,” in Harmonie et mélodie (Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1885), pp. 189–00. [Digitized at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu ].

Sauzay, Eugène, “La Vie musicale à Paris à travers les mémoires d’Eugène Sauzay (1809–1901),” ed. Brigitte François-Sappey, Revue de musicologie 60 (1974), 159–210. 

Taffanel, Paul, “L’Art de diriger,” in Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire, ed. Albert Lavignac and Lionel de La Laurencie (Paris, 1913–31), II, 4, pp. 2129–34. Modern edn. included in Deldevez, L’Art du chef d'orchestre, ed. and ann. Jean-Philippe Navarre (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1998), pp. 142–51.

Tolbecque, Auguste, Souvenirs d’un musicien en province (Niort: T. Mercier, 1896).

Wagner, Mein Leben (1881, etc.), edn. Martin Gregor-Dellin as erste authentische Veröffentlichung (Munich: List, 1963). Eng. edn. as My Life, ed. Mary Whitall, transl. Andrew Gray (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

----- "Über das Dirigieren" (1869), Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen I/8 (Leipzig: Siegel, 1898), pp. 261-337. Eng. transl. as "On Conducting," in Three Wagner Essays, transl. Robert L. Jacobs (London: Eulenburg Books, 1979). 

D. Select List of Music Publications Associated with the Société des Concerts

Alkan, Charles Valentin, Souvenirs des Concerts du Conservatoire. Partitions pour piano seul (Paris, 1847). Also Souvenirs . . . 2e série (Paris, 1861). Link to contents.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, Collection des symphonies, symphonies 1–8 in 2 vols, “édition dediée à la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire et Musique, et revue par Fétis” (Paris, 1841). 

—— Délivrance de Vienne, La, par Jean Sobieski (12 7bre 1683) [Der Glorreiche Augenblick]: cantate dramatique avec chœur, exécutée pour la 1ière fois à Paris au concert du Conservatoire par la Société des Concerts, le 27 janvier 1850 (Paris, [1850]). 

—— 7e Symphonie en la nat. majeur, arr. piano four-hands Renaud de Vilbac, “Hommage à la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire” (Paris, 1859). 

Dancla, Charles, Souvenir de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire: 6 Duos pour piano et violon, op. 91 (Leipzig, [1859]). Copy: GB-Lbl h.1650.(2.) (nos. 1-3 only). 

Expert, Henry, ed. Répertoire de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris extrait des Maîtres Musiciens de la Renaissance française, ed. Henry Expert (Paris, 1906). 

Gounod, Charles, Répertoire des Concerts du Conservatoire, [etc.]: Quatorze Grands Chœurs à quatre voix avec accompagnment de piano (Paris, [c. 1884]). 

Onslow, George, 1ère Symphonie à Grand Orchestre, dédiée à la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Musique de Paris, op. 41 (Paris: [1830]). 

Répertoire des morceaux d'ensemble exécutés par la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, arrangés très soigneusement pour piano seul (Paris, 1850). 170 volumes, including most of the central repertoire of the orchestra and chorus, notably the symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn in piano score. Link to contents.

D(1). Texts  

Bélanger, Entr'actes du comte d'Egmont, musique de Beethoven, poème-résumé de la tragédie de Goethe; traduit de l'allemand par Bélanger (Paris: Impr. E Duverger, [1849]). Copy: Bnf Tolbiac 4 YTH 1434.

Trianon, Henry, Ouverture et entr'actes d'Egmont, par Beethoven; paroles de M. Henry Trianon, d'après le drame de Goethe (Paris: au Conservatoire, [1855]). Copy: Bnf Tolbiac YF 13021.

E. Other Works Cited and Consulted  

Baedeker, Paris and Environs (Leipzig, [etc.]: K. Baedeker, 1910)

Berlioz, Hector, Correspondance générale, gen. ed. Pierre Citron, 8 vols. (Paris: Flammarion, 1972-2003).

—— Critique musicale, gen. ed. Yves Gérard, with Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï, 4 vols. to date (Paris: Buchet / Chastel, 1996- ).

—— Grand Traité  d'Instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes (Paris: Schonenberger, 1843; 2nd edn. Paris, 1855, including “Le Chef d'orchestre: théorie de son art”).

—— Grotesques de la Musique (Paris: Bourdilliat, 1859); modern edn. ed. Léon Guichard (Paris, 1969).

—— Mémoires de Hector Berlioz, comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865 (Paris: Michel Lévy, 1870, and many later editions and translations).

—— “Observations” for performing Roméo et Juliette, New Berlioz Edition vol. 18, ed. D. Kern Holoman (Kassel, etc.: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1990), p. 383.

Biasini, Émile, Sur Malraux: celui qui aimait les chats (Paris: O. Jacob, 1999). 

Blakeman, Edward [Graham], “The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saëns and Paul Taffanel, 1880-1906,”Music and Letters 63 (1982), 44-58.

—— , Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) and His Significance in French Musical Life (Ph.D. diss., University of Birmingham, 1993).

Bloom, Peter, ed., Music in Paris in the Eighteen Thirties / La Musique à Paris dans les années mil huit cent trente, ed. Peter Bloom (Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press 1987). 

Boigne, Charles, baron de, Petits Mémoires de l'Opéra (Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1857).

Bongrain, Anne, and Yves Gérard, with Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï, Le Conservatoire de Paris, de Menus-Plaisirs à la Cité de la musique, 1795-1995 (Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1996).

—— and Alain Poirier, ed., Les Conservatoire de Paris: deux cents ans de pédagogie (Paris, 1999).

Brenet, Michel (pseud. of Marie Bobillier), Haydn, ser. Les Maîtres de la Musique (Paris: F. Alcan, 1909; 2nd edn. 1910); Eng. transl. C. Leonard Leese, ed. W. H. Hadow (London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1926; rpt. New York: B. Blom, 1972).

Carse, Adam von Ahn, The Orchestra from Beethoven to Berlioz; a History of the Orchestra in the First Half of the 19th Century, and of the Development of Orchestral Baton-Conducting (Cambridge: W. Heffer,  [1948]). Rpt. New York : Broude Brothers, 1949.

Catz, Mathilde, “Instances de décisions à travers la législation organique du Conservatoire,” in Hondré, Le Conservatoire, pp. 255-70 and charts pp. 271-75.

Chassain-Dolliou, Laetitia: Le Conservatoire de Paris, ou les voies de la création (Paris: Gallimard, 1995), in series Découvertes Gallimard: Mémoire des Lieux.

Chimènes, Myriam, ed., La Vie musicale sous Vichy (Brussels: Éditions Complexe, 2001).

Cohen, H. Robert, “The Musical World of Dantan jeune: Subtle Distortions and Giants Reduced,” in Bloom, ed., Music in Paris in the Eighteen-Thirties, pp. 135-208.

Cooper, Jeffrey, The Rise of Instrumental Music and Concert Series in Paris, 1828–1871 (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, and Epping: Bowker, 1983). From Ph.D. diss. Cornell, 1981.

Coppola, Piero, Dix-sept ans de musique à Paris, 1922–1939 (Lausanne, 1944), rpt. ed. Alain Pâris (Paris and Geneva, 1982).

Cowden, Robert H., Concert and Opera Conductors: a Bibliography of Biographical Materials, ser. Music Reference Collection no. 14  (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987).

Dancla, Charles, Les Compositeurs chefs d'orchestre; réponse à M. Charles Gounod (Paris: M. Chatot, 1873). 7 pp.

Debussy, Claude, Claude Debussy: Lettres 1884–1918, ed. François Lesure (Paris: Hermann, 1980). Eng. transl. Roger Nichols as Debussy Letters (London: Faber and Faber, and Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).

—— Monsieur Croche et autres écrits, ed. François Lesure (Paris: Gallimard, 1971; rev. edn. 1987). Eng. transl. Richard Langham Smith as Debussy on Music (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1977; paperback edn. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988).

[Delannoy, François-Jacques], Souvenirs de la vie et des ouvrages de Delannoy (Paris, 1839).

Deldevez, E.-M.-E., Notation de la musique classique, La, comparée à celle dela musique moderne, ou de l'exécution des petites notes en général (Paris, 1867).

—— Principes de la formation des accords d'après le système de la tonalité moderne (Paris, 1868).

     See also Deldevez in C., above.

Di Grazia, Donna M., Concert Societies in Paris and Their Choral Repertories c. 1828-1880, Ph.D. diss. Washington University (St. Louis), 1993. 2 vols.

d'Indy, Vincent, see Indy, Vincent d'.

Donnet, Alexis, Architectonographie des théâtres de Paris, ou, Parallèle historique et critique de ces édifices considérés sous le rapport de l'architecture et de la décoration, enrichi de vingt planches en taille-douce et du plan de Paris, gravés par Orgiazzi (Paris : P. Didot l'aîné, 1821, and subsequent edns.); see “Théâtre du Conservatoire,“ pp. 247-52 and pl. XVII.

Dufourcq, Norbert, La Musique française (Paris: Larousse [1949]; 2nd edn. Paris: A. et J. Picard, 1970).

Dufy, Raoul, Raoul Dufy, text by Alfred Werner, ser. The Library of Great Painters (New York: H. N. Abrams, [1970]).

Dunan, Elisabeth, France: Archives nationales: Inventaire de la série AJ37 (Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1971- ). 

Ellis, Katharine, Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: La Revue et Gazette  musicale de Paris, 1834–80 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Fauquet, Joël-Marie, ed., Musique, signes, images: Liber amicorum François Lesure (Geneva: Minkoff: 1988).

—— Sociétés de musique de chambre à Paris de la Restauration à 1870, Les (Paris: Aux amateurs de livres, 1986)

Fischer, Penelope Ann Peterson, Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941): His Life and Contributions as Flutist, Editor, Teacher, Conductor, and Composer, Ph.d. diss., University of Maryland, 1982.

Fétis, F.-J., Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique, 8 vols. (1st edn. Brussels: Leroux, 1835-44); 2e éd., entièrement refondue et augmentée de plus de moitié, 8 vols. (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1861-1866) [with many variant printings]; 2 supplementary vols.: supplément et complément publiés sous la direction de Arthur Pougin (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1878-80). Rpt. Brussels: Culture et Civilization, 1963.

Fulcher, Jane F., French Cultural Politics & Music: from the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)

Galkin, Eliott W., A History of Orchestral Conducting in Theory and Practice (Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1986). See notably “François-Antoine Habeneck,” pp. 469-79.

Gavoty, Bernard, Alfred Cortot (Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1977).

—— André Cluytens (series Les Grands Interpètes). Photographs by Roger Hauert (Geneva: Éditions René Kister, 1955; Eng. transl. 1956).

—— Roberto Benzi  (series Les Grands Interpètes). Photographs by Roger Hauert (Geneva: Éditions René Kister, 1953).

See also in the same series: Ataulfo Argenta (1956), Alfred Cortot (1953, Eng. transl. 1955), Samson François (1955, Eng. transl. 1956), Carl Schuricht (1955, Eng. transl. 1956), among more than two dozen titles.

Gefen, Gérard, Furtwängler: Une Biographie par le disque (Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1986).

Gendron, Christian, Auguste Tolbecque: luthier et musicien (Niort: Musée de Niort, 1997). Catalogue of an exhibition there, 1997.

Girard, Augustin, and Geneviève Gentil, eds., Les Affaires Culturelles au temps d'André Malraux, 1959-1969: journées d'étude des 30 novembre et 1er décembre 1989 (Paris: Comité d'Histoire du Ministère de la Culture: La Documentation française, 1996).

Glen, Nancy L., A Study of Four Nineteenth-Century Horn Professors [Duvernoy, Domnich, Dauprat, Gallay] at the Paris Conservatory and Their Methods (M.M thesis, University of Northern Colorado, 1996).

Goubault, Christian, Jacques Thibaud (1880-1953): Violoniste français; preface by Yehudi Menuhin, discography by Gérald Drieu (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1988).

Greene, Jr., Grady Joel, Louis François Dauprat: His Life and Works (Ed.D. diss., University of Northern Colorado, 1970).

Guide de la musique, see Musée de la Musique.

Guillon-Laffaille, Fanny, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels 2 vols. (Paris: L. Carré, 1981, 1982).

——Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné des dessins ([Paris:] Marval, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, 1991). 

Gut, Serge, “Die Bedeutung von François Antoine Habeneck für die Verbreitung der deutschen Musik in Frankreich während der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunders,” in Deutsche Musik im Wegekreuz zwischen Polen und Frankreich: zum Problem musikalischer Wechselbeziehungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Christoph-Hellmut Mahling and Kristina Pfarr (Tutzing: H. Schneider, 1996), pp. 124-34.

Handy, W. C., Father of the Blues: an Autobiography, ed. Arna Bontemps (New York: Macmillan, 1941; London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1957; rpt. New York: Collier Books, 1971; New York: Da Capo Press, 1985, 1991).

Harding, James, Saint-Saëns and His Circle (London: Chapman & Hall, 1965).

Hauert, Roger (photographer). See Gavoty, Bernard.

Hegermann-Lindencrone, Lille de, In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875, from Contemporary Letters (New York: Harper & Brothers, [1912]; rpt. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925) Rpt. as In the Courts of Memory: Musical and Social Life during the Second Empire in Paris, from Contemporary Letters (New York: Da Capo Press, 1980).

Holoman, D. Kern, Berlioz (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989).

—— “Emergence of the Orchestral Conductor in Paris in the 1830s, The,” in Music in Paris in the Eighteen Thirties / La Musique à Paris dans les années mil huit cent trente, ed. Peter Bloom (Stuyvesant, New York, 1987), pp. 387–430. 

—— “Introduction,” in Berlioz: A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. v-xxii.

—— “Orchestre de Paris,“ in Symphony Orchestras of the World: Selected Profiles, ed. Robert R. Craven (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987), 100–07.

—— “Performing Berlioz,“ The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz, ed. Peter Bloom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 173-93; citing a roundtable, “Conducting Berlioz“ (David Cairns Holoman, Hugh Macdonald, Roger Norrington) transcribed as “Conducting Berlioz,“ Berlioz Society Bulletin no. 155 (Spring/Summer 1996), pp. 27-50.

Hondré, Emmanuel, ed., Le Conservatoire de Musique de Paris: regards sur une instituion et son histoire (Paris, 1995). 

Honegger, Geneviève, ed., Charles Munch: un chef d'orchestre dans le siècle (Strasbourg: La Nuée bleue, 1992).

Imbert, Hugues, “Taffanel (Claude-Paul),“ Medaillons contemporains (Paris: Fischbacher, 1903), pp. 391-96; after an earlier version in Guide musical, 16/23 July 1893. Approved by Taffanel.

Indy, Vincent d', César Franck (Paris: F. Alcan, 1906). Eng. transl. RosaNewmarch (London: J. Lane, 1909).

Kobler, John, Otto the Magnificent: the Life of Otto Kahn (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989).

Koury, Daniel J., Orchestral Performance Practices in the Nineteenth Century: Size, Proportions, Seating (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986); orig. Ph.D. diss. Boston University, 1981). 

Laffaille, Maurice, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 4 vols. (Geneva: Éditions Motte, 1972-77).

Landon, H. C. Robbins, Haydn: Chronicle and Works, 5 vols. (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1977).

Landormy, Paul, La Musique française de Franck à Debussy and La Musique française après Debussy ([Paris]: Gallimard, [1943]).

Liébert, Georges, ed., L'Art du chef d'orchestre (Paris: Hachette, 1988). Conducting treatises and related texts of Hector Berlioz, Richard Wagner, Felix Weingartner, Bruno Walter, Charles Munch.

Long, Marceau, et al, Les Grands Arrêts de la jurisprudence administrative, 6th edn. (Paris: Sirey, 1974).

Marti, Stavroula, “Les Grands Concerts parisiens au seuil des années 20,“ Revue internationale de musique française, no. 29 (June 1989), 18-27.

Massougnes, Georges de, Hector Berlioz: son œuvre (Paris: S. Richault, ?1869; 2nd edn. 1870; rpt. Calmann-Levy, 1919).

Matz, Mary Jane, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn (New York: Macmillan, 1963; rpt. New York: Pendragon Press, [1984]).

McCutchan, Ann, Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1994).

Mongrédien, Jean, “Les Premiers Exercices publics d'élèves (1800-15) d'après la presse contemporaine,“ in Bongrain, ed., Le Conservatoire de Paris . . . (q. v. above), pp. 15-37.

Morin, Philippe, “Discographie intégrale de Charles Munch,“ Le Monde de la musique, 21 November 1988, pp. 123-26.

Musée de la Musique, Paris, Guide, ed. Philippe Blay et al. (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Musée de la Musique: 1997). Guide-catalogue of the new museum in the Cité de la Musique, formerly the Musée du Conservatoire. 

Nectoux, Jean-Michel, Gabriel Fauré: Les Voix du clair-obscur (Paris: Flammarion, 1990).

Olivier, Philippe, Charles Munch: Une Biographie par le disque (Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1987).

Pasler, Jann, “Building a Public for Orchestral Music: Les Concerts Colonne,“ Le Concert et son public: Mutations de la vie musicale en Europe de 1780 à 1914 (France, Allemagne, Angleterre), ed. Hans Erich Bödeket et al. Paris: Éditions de la Maision des Sciences de l'Homme, 2002), 209–40.

—— “Concert Programs and their Narratives as Emblems of Ideology,“ International Journal of Musicology 2 (1993), 249-308.

—— “Ironies of Gender, The, or Virility and Politics in the Music of Augusta Holmès,“ Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 2 (1998), 1-25.

—— Useful Music, Or Why Music Mattered in Third Republic France (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, forthcoming)

P[ereyra], M. L., “A propose de Ouverture en Si bémol de Mozart,“ Revue de musicologie 18 (1937), p. 55.

Piston, Danièle, ed., “Dossier: Beethoven à Paris,“ in Reuve internationale de musique française, no. 22 (February 1987), 7-70. Includes Pistone, “Beethoven et Paris“; Beate Angelika Kraus, “La Pénétration de l'œuvre de Beethoven en France à travers les annonces de la presse musicale“; Charlotte de Lescure, “Les Oeuvres de Beethoven au concert sous la Monarchie de Juillet et le Second Empire“; Stéphane Huchet, “Beethoven et l'iconographie française.“

Prod'homme, J. G., “Music and Musicians in Paris during the First Two Seasons of the War,“ Musical Quarterly 4 (1918), 135-60.

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