(MANUSCRIBES) KNOWLEDGE. CHAMBÉRY Livre Pour Les... Lot 5

(MANUSCRIBES) [KNOWLEDGE]. CHAMBÉRY] Livre Pour Les Reglements du Concert de Chambéry [of November 23, 1732]. Register of the Brotherhood of Saint Cecilia. In French, manuscript on paper. France, Savoie, Chambéry, 1732-1737 Petit in-folio, 190 ff. (text only on ff. 2 to 4, 7 to 11, 100 to 113 and 151 to 152), in French in brown ink on paper. Full parchment period binding, spine bound, spine with five raised bands, entitled "Livre du Reglement du concert de Chambery du 23e 9bre 1732" (stains and stains on the covers; some freckles). Dimensions: 352 x 227 mm. Rare and important. Register relating to the brotherhood of Sainte-Cécile and the concerts organized in the parish church of Saint-Léger in Chambery. Saint Cecilia was the patron saint of musicians. This same church threatened ruin some twenty years later. The nobles (Pierre Louis de Lescheraine, Marquis des Bauges, the Count of Sainte Heleine), clerics (Reverend Jean Baptiste de Carpinel, Claude François Quinson and others) and men of music (Deloully, The parish authorities (music master of the city of Chambéry) drew up detailed regulations for the celebrations and their brotherhood (elections, recruitment of choirs and musicians, recruiting and financing of the concerts) under the aegis of the archbishop of Grenoble, who was the final signatory. This was followed by declarations on the recruitment of musicians throughout the 1730s, the deliberations of the councils assembled "in the Concert Hall", the contracts binding the music academicians recruited to the clerics (reduced remuneration in case of absence, etc.) under the supervision of the music master of the Sainte-Chapelle [of the castle of the dukes] of Savoy, Mr. Deloully, who was also music master of the city of Chambéry.