Stéphan Perreau


Stéphan Perreau is a French contemporary musician and art historian.

Biography

A holder of a master's degree in art history and early modern period, Perreau studied at the University of Rouen, the Bordeaux Montaigne University and the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. He is a specialist on painter Hyacinthe Rigaud to whom he devoted a monograph published in 2004.
A baroque flautiste and viol player, graduated from the Conservatory of Toulouse and the Conservatoire de Paris, he participated in the revival of the composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier thanks to a close collaboration with Hervé Niquet, which led to a performance at the Opéra Comique of Don Quichotte chez La Duchesse, from a libretto 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, un musicien lorrain-catalan à la cour des Lumières, Les Presses du Languedoc, Montpellier, 240 p.
  • 2004:
  • 2007: Jan Dismas Zelenka , 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,.
  • 2011: Un portrait de Claude Deshaies-Gendron au musée de Chantilly, "Bulletin des Amis du musée Condé"", n° 68. October,.
  • 2012: Les années parisiennes de Jean Ranc, "L'Estampille-l'Objet d'art", n°475, January,.
  • 2013:
Stéphan Perreau is preparing publication of a catalog of the work of Jean Ranc.

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.