Catherine Massip (born 12 May 1946 in Paris) is a French curator of libraries and musicologist. ^[1]

Biography

A student of the École nationale des chartes, Massip obtained there her archivist palaeographer diploma in 1973 with a thesis entitled Les musiciens à Paris au milieu du XVIIe (1643–1661). Institutions et condition sociale. ^[2] She also won first prizes at the conservatoire de Paris both in music history and musicology. She is also the holder of a State doctorate. ^[3]

In 1973, she was appointed a curator at the Département de la musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France [ fr]. She spent her entire career there and headed the department from 1988 to 2012. She was appointed General curator in 1992. ^[3]

She was the president of the Arts Florissants from 1996 to 2011 and secretary-general of the non-profit ( association) supporting Les Arts Florissants beginning in 2012. She continues to serve as the treasurer of the Fondation Les Arts Florissants - William Christie. ^{[4] [5]}

At the same time, she taught modern musicology (16th to 20th centuries) as Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études and was a researcher at the Institute of Research on Musical Heritage in France. The Institute became the IReMus (Institut de Recherche en Musicologie) on 1 January 2014. Massip has been president of the French association of musicologists Société française de musicologie from 2005 to 2008. ^[6]

Works

In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals, she is the author of:

• Michel-Richard Delalande. Le Lully latin, Geneva, Papillon, 2005, 160 p. (Collection Mélophiles).
• Hector Berlioz. La Voix du romantisme, in collaboration with Cécile Reynaud, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BNF, 2003, 264 p.
• L’art de bien chanter : Michel Lambert (1610–1696), Paris, Société française de musicologie, 1999, 412 p.
• Catalogue des manuscrits musicaux antérieurs à 1800 conservés au département de la Musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, under the direction of Cécile Grand and Catherine Massip. A et B. Paris, BnF, 1999. XVII-529 p.
• Au cœur du baroque : les vingt ans des Arts Florissants, in collaboration with Marie-José Kerhoas, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra, Sept. Dec. 1999.
• Portrait(s) de Darius Milhaud, under the direction of Myriam Chimènes and Catherine Massip, Paris, BnF, 1998, 151 p. À l'occasion de l'exposition « Les mythologies de Darius Milhaud » April–June 1999, including "Repères chronologiques", (pp. 57–91).
• André Gedalge, exhibition catalogue, in collaboration with Myriam Chimènes Paris, BnF, 1996.
• Hommage à Olivier Messiaen, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BnF, 1996.
• Portrait(s) d’Olivier Messiaen, under the direction of Catherine Massip, Paris, BnF, 1996. 175 p. including Regards sur Olivier Messiaen, textes réunis par Catherine Massip (pp. 6–37).
• Wagner, le Ring en images, in collaboration with Elisabeth Vilatte, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BNF, 1994.
• Don Juan (commissariat général), exhibition catalogue, Paris, BnF, 1991.
• Le Chant d’Euterpe, Paris, Hervas (BNP/BN), 1991, 188 p. (Iconographie musicale à la BnF).
• La France et la Russie au Siècle des Lumières, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Moscow, Leningrad ( Hermitage Museum), 1987.
• Musiques anciennes (dation de Chambure), exhibition catalogue, in collaboration with François Lesure, Josiane BranRicci, Florence Gétreau (Abondance), Paris, BnF, 1980.

References

External links

• Catherine Massip on BnF
• Catherine Massip on Symétrie
• Catherine Massip on Thèses.fr
• Catherine Massip on Iremus
• Catherine Massip on CAIRN
• Catherine Massip on Sorbonne.fr
• La vie des musiciens de Paris au temps de Mazarin : 1643-1661 : essai d'étude sociale on Worldcat
• Catherine Massip on Les Arts florissants