Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de Musique Romantique Française

Le Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de musique de Paris est un établissement public. Il dispense un enseignement de haut niveau dans les domaines de la musique, de la danse et des nouvelles technologies du son. Cet enseignement a pour objet l’acquisition des connaissances théoriques et la maîtrise pratique nécessaires à l’exercice de ces arts ou professions ainsi qu’à l’enseignement.

The Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini (Onlus) of Lucca was established in November 2005 to carry out the editorial work relating to the complete works of the lucchese composer Luigi Boccherini. The choice of Lucca as a location is not by chance: Luigi Boccherini was born in Lucca, so it is the natural site on which to launch the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Complete Works. The Centro Studi also hosts the work of the Italian National Edition of the Opera omnia of Pietro Antonio Locatelli and the musicological series Speculum Musicae, Studies on Italian Music History and Monumenta Musica Europea. Furthermore, the staff of the Centro Studi carry out the scientific and editorial work of numerous international musicological publications, including Boccherini Studies, offering the definitive record of international scholarly debate on the composer, and, together with other musicologists, the journal Ad Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music, and the series Ad Parnassum Studies. The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini organizes International Conferences and Symposia on various musicological topics and has founded the Boccherini Festival. The Centro Studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini-Onlus is a member of the Fondazione Promo P.A. di Lucca (www.promopa.it)

The Geneva Conservatoire and the Palazzetto Bru Zane are working on a two-stage joint research project. The first stage involves detailed cataloguing of the Geneva collections of orchestral materials dating from the closing years of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. In the second stage those same collections will be studied from an applied musicological standpoint. This work, begun in December 2008, has already enabled us to find the first edition, believed lost, of the overture to Les Francs-Juges by Berlioz. More generally, this research will lead to the use of the scores in a pedagogical context. Later there will be colloquia and study days, followed by the publication of works on the musical practices of that period.