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 Work of art, artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Tradit ...

and

early modern period The early modern period is a Periodization, historical period that is defined either as part of or as immediately preceding the modern period, with divisions based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There i ...

, 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), t ...

, the Bordeaux Montaigne University and the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. 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 Rigau ...

to whom he devoted a

monograph A monograph is generally a long-form work on one (usually scholarly) subject, or one aspect of a subject, typically created by a single author or artist (or, sometimes, by two or more authors). Traditionally it is in written form and published a ...

published in 2004. A baroque flautiste and

viol The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...

player, graduated from the Conservatory of Toulouse and the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or 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 Jean Ja ...

, 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 a ...

thanks to a close collaboration with Hervé Niquet, 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 Théâtre de la foire, Fair Theatres of St Germain and S ...

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

libretto A libretto (From the Italian word , ) 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 th ...

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 Louis XV of France, Philip V of ...

'', "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: ''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