Collectionner la musique : au cœur de l'interpretation - Herlin, Denis; Massip, Catherine; Duron, Jean (Turnhout Brepols, 2012)
Tracing the history of the art of collecting music is a relatively new scholarly phenomenon. The present compendium, prepared by an international group of research scholars, is the result of a project that was launched by the Fondation Royaumont following its acquisition of the library of the pianist François Lang (1908-1944).Following logically upon the contents of the first volume (Collectionner la musique : histoires d’une passion, 2010); this new volume focuses upon the question of the “collector-interpreter”. The phenomenon of collecting, which has been central to the work of certain artists, is here illustrated, first, by a series of articles concerning, among others, the collections of Davitt Moroney, Robert Spencer, and Richard Bonynge, and second, by a series of portraits of collector-interpreters from the sixteenth century down to the present day including, among others, Adrien Smout, R. F. E. von Schönborn, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Alfred Cortot.
Keywords: Moroney, D; Spencer, Robert -- 1932-1997; Bonynge, Richard -- 1930-; Smout, Adriaan; Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Rudolf Franz Erwein von -- 1677-1754; Saint-Saëns, Camille -- 1835-1921; Cortot, Alfred -- 1877-1962; Juilliard School, New York; Collecting; Library; Musical interpretation