Catherine Massip is a French curator of libraries and musicologist.
Biography
A student of the École nationale des chartes, Massip obtained there her archivistpalaeographer diploma in 1973 with a thesis entitled Les musiciens à Paris au milieu du XVIIe. Institutions et condition sociale. 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. In 1973, she was appointed a curator at the. She spent her entire career there and headed the department from 1988 to 2012. She was appointed General curator in 1992. She was the president of the Arts Florissants from 1996 to 2011 and secretary-general of the non-profit supporting Les Arts Florissantsbeginning in 2012. She continues to serve as the treasurer of the Fondation Les Arts Florissants - William Christie. At the same time, she taught modern musicology 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 on 1 January 2014. Mélanges were offered to her on the occasion of her retirement.
Works
In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals, she is the author of:
Michel-Richard Delalande. Le Lully latin, Geneva, Papillon, 2005, 160 p..
Hector Berlioz. La Voix du romantisme, in collaboration with Cécile Reynaud, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BNF, 2003, 264 p.
L’art de bien chanter : Michel Lambert, Paris, Société française de musicologie, 1999, 412 p.
Catalogue des manuscrits musicaux antérieurs à 1800 conservés au département de la Musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, under the direction of Cécile Grand and Catherine Massip. A et B. Paris, BnF, 1999. XVII-529 p.
Au cœur du baroque : les vingt ans des Arts Florissants, in collaboration with Marie-José Kerhoas, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Bibliothèque-Musée de l'Opéra, Sept. Dec. 1999.
Portrait de Darius Milhaud, under the direction of Myriam Chimènes and Catherine Massip, Paris, BnF, 1998, 151 p. À l'occasion de l'exposition « Les mythologies de Darius Milhaud » April–June 1999, including "Repères chronologiques",.
André Gedalge, exhibition catalogue, in collaboration with Myriam Chimènes Paris, BnF, 1996.
Hommage à Olivier Messiaen, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BnF, 1996.
Portrait d’Olivier Messiaen, under the direction of Catherine Massip, Paris, BnF, 1996. 175 p. including Regards sur Olivier Messiaen, textes réunis par Catherine Massip.
Wagner, le Ring en images, in collaboration with Elisabeth Vilatte, exhibition catalogue, Paris, BNF, 1994.
