ABOUT
- Early music scores restoration studio established in Canada since 2013, Atelier Philidor is the fruits of my passion for ancient music and visual arts. Atelier Philidor is dedicated to the preservation of middle-age, renaissance and baroque artworks and the availability of this musical heritage.
- Atelier Philidor restores and reprints Early Music Facsimiles intended for musicians who wish to play and study important works of the past in faithful copies of the publications in which they were first issued. The original notation and engraving are carefully preserved as well as publishers' corrections - whether effected by collettes or by manuscript insertions. Blemishes are suppressed as are owner's stamps, marginalia, memos regarding performance, and similar markings peculiar to particular copies. Format is modernized when the ancient one is inappropriate for modern performance.
- Why Philidor? A tribute to André Danican Philidor “l’Aîné”, Louis XIV composer and musician, born in Versailles about 1647 and died in Dreux in 1730. He was qualified as Ordinaire de la Musique du Roi, but essentially copyist and librarian of the monarch. In 1702, he is named Guard of the King’s Music Library, Louis XIV founded shortly after his advent in order to add to the productions of its reign all the musical works created under its predecessors, Henri IV and Louis XIII.
The Atelier Philidor Library
harbours more than 3000 sheet music & books of early music.
