Stéphan Perreau (born 1969) is a French contemporary musician and art historian.

Biography

A holder of a master's degree in

art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and early modern period, Perreau studied at the

University of Rouen The University of Rouen Normandy (''Université de Rouen Normandie'') is a French university, in the Academy of Rouen. History and demographics Located not in Rouen, but in the suburb of Mont-Saint-Aignan (a "township" in the Normandy region), th ...

, the

Bordeaux Montaigne University Bordeaux Montaigne University (French language, French: ''Université Bordeaux Montaigne''; formerly ''Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3'') is a Lists of universities in France, public university in Pessac, France, approximately 8 kilom ...

and the

University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (french: Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, formerly known as ''Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail'', also called Toulouse II) is a French public university located in Toulouse, France. It is one of the 3 success ...

. He is a specialist on painter

Hyacinthe Rigaud Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Biography Rigaud ...

to whom he devoted a

monograph A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject. In library cataloging, ''monograph ...

published in 2004. A baroque flautiste and

viol The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitc ...

player, graduated from the Conservatory of Toulouse and the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

, he participated in the revival of the composer

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained ...

thanks to a close collaboration with

Hervé Niquet Hervé Niquet (born 28 October 1957) is a French conductor, harpsichordist, tenor, and the director of Le Concert Spirituel, specializing in French Baroque music. Biography Born on 28 October 1957, Hervé Niquet was raised at Abbeville in the ...

, which led to a performance at the

Opéra Comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...

of ''Don Quichotte chez La Duchesse'', from a

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...

by Favart. He devoted two recordings to Boismortier as well as a monograph, the first one about this composer, in 2002 ().

Principal publications

* 2001: ''Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755), un musicien lorrain-catalan à la cour des Lumières'', Les Presses du Languedoc, Montpellier, 240 p. * 2004: * 2007: ''Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)'', Bleu Nuit éditeur, Paris, 176 p. * 2011: '' Alphonse Hippolyte Joseph Leveau, un représentant de l'académisme bourgeois'', "Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'art", n°9, Voulangis, (p. 77-87). * 2011: ''Un portrait de Claude Deshaies-Gendron au musée de Chantilly'', "Bulletin des Amis du musée Condé"", n° 68. October, (p. 50-55). * 2012: ''Les années parisiennes de

Jean Ranc Jean Ranc (28 January 1674 – 1 July 1735) was a French painter, mainly active in portraiture. He trained under his father Antoine Ranc and his father's former student Hyacinthe Rigaud and served in the courts of both Louis XV of France and ( ...

'', "L'Estampille-l'Objet d'art", n°475, January, (p. 38-47). * 2013: Stéphan Perreau is preparing publication of a catalog of the work of

Discography

* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: ''sonates à deux flûtes sans basse''. Arion, ref. ARN63758. *

Pierre Danican Philidor Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

: ''trois trios pour Hyacinthe Rigaud'', Pierre Vérany, ref. PV700036. * Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: ''variations en mineur pour flûte traversière seule''. Pierre Vérany, ref. PV702111.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Perreau, Stephan 1969 births Living people French classical flautists French viol players 21st-century French historians French art historians French biographers Conservatoire de Paris alumni University of Rouen Normandy alumni