Alexandre Dratwicki


Alexandre Dratwicki is a contemporary French musicologist.

Biography

Scientific director of the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française and former resident of the Académie de France à Rome, Alexandre Dratwicki is a graduate from the Conservatoire de Paris. He has taught music history and musical analysis in several French universities and was a radio producer for Radio France with his twin brother. In 2006–2008, he was artistic advisor to the Opéra-Comique.
Alexandre Dratwicki has been trained as a clarinetist and violist at the Metz and Nancy conservatories. He also received various awards in music history, musical analysis, orchestration and chamber music.
As a musicologist, he has published notably at Actes Sud,, and Symétrie. His work Un nouveau commerce de la virtuosité , published by the latter earned him the 2007 Prix des Muses for essay. In 2013 he received a prize of the Napoléon foundation for the record-book La Mort d'Abel by Kreutzer, which he directed. As a researcher, he is particularly interested in the notions of virtuosity and musical academism.
Since 2009, through his activity at the Palazzetto Bru Zane, which consists of rediscovering unknown works and forgotten composers, He participates in productions or co-productions leading to the creation of French works in concert and on the stage, extended in general by the publication of recordings. In this context, Alexandre Dratwicki has been conducting the series "Musics of the Prix de Rome" launched at Glossa and continued in the series of record-books of Palazzetto Bru Zane since 2010. In 2012, he started the series "Opéras français" of the Palazzetto Bru Zane and subsequently, in 2014, that of the "Portraits".

Selected publications

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Books

  • Un nouveau commerce de la virtuosité : émancipation et métamorphoses de la musique concertante au sein des institutions musicales parisiennes , preface by Jean Gribenski, Lyon, Symétrie, 2006. Prix des Muses 2007 ,
  • Mozart, Paris, Le Cavalier bleu, 2006.
  • Mozart. Paris, 1778, in collaboration with Benoît Dratwicki, Versailles, Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, 2006.

    Direction of collective works

  • Le concerto pour piano français à l'épreuve des modernités, Actes Sud & Palazzetto Bru Zane, 2015.
  • Le surnaturel sur la scène lyrique : du merveilleux baroque au fantastique romantique, codirected with Agnès Terrier, Lyon, Symétrie, 2012. Prix des Muses 2011 .
  • Le Concours du prix de Rome de musique , codirected with Julia Lu, Lyon, Symétrie, 2011.
  • L’invention des genres lyriques français et leur redécouverte au XIX, codirected with Agnès Terrier, Lyon, Symétrie, 2010,.
  • Hérold en Italie, Lyon, Symétrie, 2009.
  • L’Artiste et sa muse, codirected with Christiane Dotal, Paris, Somogy, 2006,.

    Critical editions of literary sources

  • Castil-Blaze: Histoire de l’opéra-comique, copublished with Patrick Taïeb, Lyon, Symétrie, 2012.
  • Théodore Dubois: Journal, copublished with Charlotte Segond-Genovesi, Lyon, Symétrie, 2012.
  • Hérold en Italie, édition critique de la correspondance italienne de Hérold between 1813 and 1821, Lyon, Symétrie, 2009.

    Direction of book-records

Series Opéra français.
Series Musiques du prix de Rome
Series Portraits
  • Théodore Dubois, Venice, Palazzetto Bru Zane, 2015.
  • Théodore Gouvy, Venice, Palazzetto Bru Zane, 2014.
  • series Hervé Niquet - Le Concert Spirituel at Glossa
  • Johann Christoph Vogel: La Toison d'or, San Lorenzo, Glossa, 2013.
  • Charles-Simon Catel: Sémiramis, San Lorenzo, Glossa, 2012.