Catherine Massip | |
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Born | 12 May 1946 |
Nationality | French |
Education | École des Chartes |
Occupation(s) | Librarian, musicologist, archivist |
Employer(s) | École des chartes, Les Arts florissants |
Catherine Massip (born 12 May 1946 in Paris) is a French curator of libraries and musicologist. [1]
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 . 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]
In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals, she is the author of:
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