Erard 1806 workshop at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Découvrez ou approfondissez l'esthétique française du 1er romantisme : l'usage du jeu céleste, du célèbre son continu ou tremendo... ou monter un duo autour de la Romance française, un ensemble de musique de chambre. Certains participants auront la possibilité de jouer au Château de Malmaison
Registrations are closed
Time and Place
Jan. 23, 2023, 10:00 AM - Jan. 26, 2023, 10:00 AM
CMBV, 22 Av. de Paris, 78000 Versailles, France
A propos de l’événement
La Nouvelle Athènes is a partner of the CMBV around the repertoires of La Romance and the aesthetics of the 1st Romanticism. Alongside Stéphane Fuget and Claire Lefilliâtre, who will be teaching the CMBV singers, La Nouvelle Athènes is organizing a workshop at the CMBV led by Luca Montebugnoli for pianists, chamber musicians and singers, a workshop to deepen or discover playing on and with the Erard 1806 piano.
Some participants will be selected to play in the monthly concert series at the Château de La Malmaison that La Nouvelle Athènes is organizing.
Themes that you can discover or deepen:
– The blossoming of a French instrument maker: Sébastien Erard 1800
The history of the piano began in Italy (1710) and Saxony (1730/40) and spread to France and Great Britain. Born in Strasbourg, from the 1770's Sébastien Erard asserts himself in Paris as one of the most brilliant piano makers. His innovations, concerning both the mechanics of the instrument and the possibility of modifying the sound through the pedal stops, will establish the framework of the French aesthetic, characterized by an increased attention to the colors and the resonance of the piano.
The piano is then a luxury product made with precious woods from the West Indies such as mahogany, with ivory and ebony from Africa.
– The art of the French piano The 1806 Erard square piano - restored by Master of Art Christopher Clarke for La Nouvelle Athènes - is a fundamental tool for the rediscovery of piano playing as it developed in France from the end of the 18th century, notably around the Paris Conservatory founded in 1795. It allows to explore both the sound possibilities linked to the multiple registers of the piano, operated by its four pedals (lute, damper lift, celeste and bassoon), and the subtleties of digital playing. This new approach makes it possible to reconsider certain major figures of the French piano of the early 19th century, such as Hélène de Montgeroult, Louis Adam, Daniel Steibelt, Ferdinand Hérold, etc., who are still largely unknown today, as well as the extensive repertoire they left behind, by rediscovering the picturesque dimension of their aesthetic, always aiming at the evocation of images and natural sounds.
– The romance is one of the most fashionable genres both on the stage of the Opéra-Comique and in the salons of the old regime, then revolutionary and imperial. The romance was able to adapt and to convey very different affects, from patriotic texts to dark romances, influenced by gothic novels and fantastic legends, without forgetting its first sentimental impulses.
The Erard 1806 square piano is the ideal instrument to illustrate the dramatic events of the texts, thanks to its picturesque dimension brought by its pedals. Queen Hortense and Prince Eugene practiced and exchanged romances throughout their lives.
– The sonata with accompaniment (violon, flûte, cor) est un autre genre majeur du répertoire pianistique de l’époque, qui cherche à enrichir les possibilités sonores du piano en lui associant instruments différents, tour à tour solistes et accompagnateurs.
Luca Montebugnoli is an Italian pianist and pianofortist. A graduate of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, the CNSMDP and the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation, he is working on a doctorate at the Orpheus Instituut (Ghent) on the practice of piano arranging in the early 19th century. He is a professor of piano and fortepiano at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, at the MIMA of the University of Paris-Sorbonne and at the Conservatoire Départemental de Bobigny. In 2017, he founded the ensemble Hexaméron. He is a founding member of La Nouvelle Athènes.