{{Short description|French musicologist (1858–1918)}} '''Marie Bobillier''', real name '''Antoinette Christine Marie Bobillier''' (12 April 1858 – 4 November 1918) was a French musicologist, music critic, writing under her pseudonym '''Michel Brenet'''.

== Biography == Born in Lunéville of a military father, captain and then colonel in the artillery,<ref>{{harvnb|La Laurencie|1919|p=199}}</ref> Marie Bobillier, a single daughter,<ref name="LL200">{{harvnb|La Laurencie|1919|p=200}}</ref> lived her childhood in several cities, including Strasbourg and Metz, before finally settling in Paris in 1871. She learned to play the piano, but a scarlet fever contracted at the age of thirteen rendered her disabled, influencing her decision to devote her life to research,<ref name="Grove">{{harvnb|Pereyra|Cooper|2001|}}</ref>{{sfn|Vignal|2005|p=749}} after having been to the Pasdeloup concerts.<ref name="LL200"/> She was one of the first French women musicologists.<ref name="lf60">{{harvnb|La France|1995|p=60}}</ref>

Her first publication, ''Histoire de la symphonie à orchestre''<ref>[https://archive.org/details/histoiredelasym01brengoog ''Histoire de la symphonie à orchestre'' on Gallica, under the name Brenet]</ref> (1882), won a prize in Brussels (Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium), engaging her ever-increasing reputation in the French musicological world.<ref name="Grove"/> With a rigorous method that drew on the most reliable sources and documents, she made a series of publications – several valuable studies devoted to vocal music by Ockeghem, Goudimel, Palestrina (1906), Sébastien de Brossard, Handel, Haydn, Grétry and Berlioz. Bobillier also approached classical and medieval instrumental music and left a precious and independent ''Dictionnaire pratique et historique de la musique'',<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2008755 ''Dictionnaire pratique et historique de la musique'' on Gallica under the name Brenet]</ref> completed and published by Amédée Gastoué in 1926.

Her book ''Notes sur l’histoire du luth en France''<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729882 ''Notes sur l’histoire du luth en France'' on WorldCat, under the name Brenet]</ref> paved the way for further research in this area.<ref name="Grove"/> Her major works are ''Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais''<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28068813 ''Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais'' on WorlmdCat, under the name Brenet]</ref>("her masterpiece" according to La Laurencie<ref name="LL201">{{harvnb|La Laurencie|1919|p=201}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ripm.org/pdf/Introductions/ANMintroor.pdf Fiche du journal du Répertoire international de la presse musicale] sur ripm.org</ref>), ''Les concerts en France sous l’ancien régime''<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/983039938 ''Les concerts en France sous l’ancien régime'' on WorldCat]</ref> and ''La librairie musicale en France de 1653 à 1790'',<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/929134?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ''La librairie musicale en France de 1653 à 1790'' on Jstor]</ref> where she demonstrates her great scholarship and competence as a music historian.<ref name="Grove"/> Jean-Marie Fauquet<ref>[https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-jean-marie-fauquet.html Jean-Marie Fauquet] on France Culture</ref> summed up Marie Bobillier's work in one sentence: "It is of exceptional quality, both in terms of the variety of subjects dealt with and the method applied".<ref>Jean-Marie Fauquet, ''Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle''. Paris, Fayard, 2003, n°97.</ref>

As a critic or musicologist, she collaborated with magazines such as ''{{ill|L'Année musicale|fr}}'' (from 1911 to 1913), of which she was one of the founders with Jean Chantavoine (1877–1952), Louis Laloy and Lionel de La Laurencie<ref name="Grove"/> – she wrote bibliographies of French, German, English and Italian books, in the ''Revue musicale'', the ''{{ill|Revue de musicologie|fr}}'', the ''Archives historiques, artistiques, littéraires'', ''Le Correspondant'', the ''Courrier musical'', the ''Guide du concert'', the ''Journal musical'', ''Le ménestrel'' and the ''Tribune de Saint-Gervais'' (the monthly newsletter of the ''Schola Cantorum de Paris''),<ref name="Grove" /> etc.; Abroad, she collaborated with the ''Rivista Musicale Italiana'' and the ''Musical Quarterly''. She also contributed to Lavignac's Encyclopedia of music. Endowed with a very reserved personality and while "the stage frightened her", she gave a few lectures but declined participating in learned societies.<ref name="LL201"/>

She left notes, quotations and transcripts, accumulated throughout her research, bound after her death in nineteen volumes, and preserved under the name ''Documents sur l’histoire de la musique'' at the Bibliothèque nationale.<ref name="lf60"/><ref>Nouvelles acquisitions françaises, n° 11407–11425</ref><ref>{{cite journal| doi =10.3406/bec.1921.448650 | volume=82 | issue=1 | title=Nouvelles acquisitions du département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale pendant les années 1918–1920 | year=1921 | journal=Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes | pages=117–156 | author=Omont Henri}} mentions the detail of the volumes [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1921_num_82_1_448650 (pp.&nbsp;129)] on Persée.fr</ref>

Her pseudonym comes from the village of Les Brenets in the Doubs department, where her father's family came from.<ref>{{harvnb|La Laurencie|1919|p=202}}</ref> She died in Paris on 4 November 1918, aged 60.

== Works == === Monographs === * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Histoire de la symphonie à orchestre : depuis ses origines jusqu'à Beethoven inclusivement |publisher= Gauthier-Villars |location= Paris |year=1882 |oclc= 3797930 |id= {{BNF|352552664}} |page= [https://archive.org/details/histoiredelasym01brengoog/page/n178 168] |format=pdf |url= https://archive.org/details/histoiredelasym01brengoog}} (a work distinguished by the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium) * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Grétry : sa vie et ses œuvres | series =Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium |publisher= F. Hayez |location= Brussels |year=1884 |oclc= 606230105 |id= {{BNF|301165117}} |page=[https://archive.org/details/gretrysavieetses00bren/page/287 287] |format=pdf |url= https://archive.org/details/gretrysavieetses00bren }} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Deux pages de la vie de Berlioz; les œuvres de Berlioz en Allemagne; le premier opéra de Berlioz |publisher=L. Vanier |location= Paris |year=1889 |oclc= 12737478 |page=72 }} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Jean de Ockeghem; maître de la chapelle des rois Charles VII et Louis XI, étude bio-bibliographique, d'après des documents inédits |publisher= impr. de Daupeley-Gouverneur |location= Nogent-le-Rotrou | year=1893 |oclc= 491487575 |id={{BNF|30116513x}} |page=32}} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Sébastien de Brossard; prêtre, compositeur et bibliophile (165.–1730)<!-- published title is '165–-1730' (165en dash hyphen1730 --> : d'après ses papiers inédits |via= Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'île-de-France |publisher= (Nogent-le-Rotrou, 1896) Éditions Minkoff |location= Geneva |year=1998 |isbn= 978-2826609346 |oclc= 40551890 |id= {{BNF|352552753}} |page=53}} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Claude Goudimel; essai bio-bibliographique |series= Musique, les hommes et les instruments |publisher= (Besançon, P. Jaquin, 1898) Éditions Coderg / Librairie Ars Musicale |location= Paris/Tours |year= 1982 |oclc= 11853533 |page=46}} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= La musique dans les couvents de femmes depuis le moyen âge jusqu'à nos jours (conférence, ''Tribune de Saint-Gervais'', iv (1898), 25, 58, 73) |publisher= Bureaux de la Schola cantorum |location= Paris | year=1898 |oclc= 44851066 |id={{BNF|318296097}} |page=18}} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Notes sur l'histoire du luth en France (''Rivista musicale italiana'', v (1898), 637–676; vi (1899), 1–44 – and Turin, 1899) |publisher= Éditions Minkoff |location= Geneva |year=1973 |isbn= 978-2826600572 | oclc =729882 |page=83}} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= La musique sacrée sous Louis XIV (lecture) |publisher= Bureau d'edition de la Schola Cantorum |location= Paris |year=1899 |oclc = 24950631 |page=17}} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Les concerts en France sous l'ancien régime |publisher= Fischbacher |location= Paris |year=1900 |page=[https://archive.org/details/lesconcertsenf00bren/page/407 407] |format=pdf |url= https://archive.org/details/lesconcertsenf00bren }} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= La jeunesse de Rameau (''Rivista musicale italiana'', ix (1902), 658–693, 860–887; x (1903), 62–85, 185–206) |publisher= Fratelli Bocca Editori |location= Turin |year=1902 |oclc= 812640 |id={{BNF|31829604h}} |page= 109}} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= Palestrina |series= Maîtres de la musique | publisher= Félix Alcan |location= Paris |year=1906 |oclc= 6150626 |id={{BNF|42877100j}} |page= [https://archive.org/details/palestrin00bren/page/229 229] |format=pdf |url= https://archive.org/details/palestrin00bren }} * {{Cite journal |language=fr |title= La librairie musicale en France de 1653 à 1790, d'après les registres de privilèges (''Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft'', viii (1906–7), 401–466)|journal= Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft E.v.| location= Leipzig |year=1907 |issn= 1612-0124 |oclc= 844123473 |page=65 |url= https://archive.org/stream/SammelbandeDerInternationalenMusikgesellschaft081906-07/SammelbndeDerInternationalenMusikgesellschaft081906-07#page/n427/mode/2up }} * {{Cite book |language=fr |title= La plus ancienne méthode française de musique : ''L'art, science et pratique de plaine musique'' (Jacques Moderne, ca. 1530) with introduction and appendix | publisher =Bureaux d'édition de la Schola Cantorum | location =Paris | year =1907 | oclc =458585958 |id={{BNF|31829619j}}| pages =32|title-link= Jacques Moderne}} * {{Cite book| language =fr | title =Haydn | series =Maîtres de la musique | publisher =F. Alcan | location =Paris | year =1909 | oclc =9116365 |id={{BNF|42877089v}} | pages =[https://archive.org/details/haydnbre00bren/page/207 207]| format=pdf | url =https://archive.org/details/haydnbre00bren }} * {{Cite book| language =fr | title = Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais; documents inédits, recueillis et annotés par Michel Brenet (Paris, A. Picard, 1910) |series=Publications de la Société internationale de musique | publisher =Éditions Minkoff | location =Geneva | year =1973 | isbn =978-2826600411 | oclc =1149112 | pages =379 | format=pdf | url =http://imslp.org/wiki/Les_Musiciens_de_la_Sainte-Chapelle_du_Palais_(Brenet,_Michel) }} * {{Cite book| language =fr | title =Musique et musiciens de la vieille France | publisher =F. Alcan | location =Paris | year =1911 | oclc =3201267| pages = [https://archive.org/details/musiqueetmusicie00bren/page/249 249] | format=pdf | url =https://archive.org/details/musiqueetmusicie00bren}} (contient : Les musiciens de Philippe le Hardi, Jean de Ockeghem, maître de la chapelle des rois Charles VII et Louis XI, et Essai sur les origines de la musique descriptive par Jacques Mauduit) * {{Cite book| language =fr | title =Haendel; biographie critique, illustrée de douze planches hors texte | series =Les musiciens célèbres | publisher =H. Laurens | location =Paris | year =1912 | oclc =2714575 |id={{BNF|35254998f}} | pages =[https://archive.org/details/haendelbiographi00bren/page/126 126] | format=pdf | url =https://archive.org/details/haendelbiographi00bren }} * Musiciens d’autrefois (Paris, 1912) * {{Cite book| language =fr | title =La musique militaire; étude critique, illustrée de douze planches hors texte | series =Musiciens célèbres | publisher =H. Laurens | location =Paris | year =1917 | oclc =1978378 |id={{BNF|31829611s}} | pages =[https://archive.org/details/lamusiquemilitai00bren/page/n135 126]| format=pdf | url =https://archive.org/details/lamusiquemilitai00bren }} * {{Cite book| language =fr | title =Dictionnaire pratique et historique de la musique (complété par A. Gastoué) | publisher = Armand Colin | location =Paris | year =1926 | oclc =4530106 | pages =487 | format=pdf | url =http://imslp.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_pratique_et_historique_de_la_musique_(Brenet,_Michel) }}

=== Articles === (chronological order) * ''Gounod et la musique sacrée ?'', ''Le Correspondant'', 10 December 1893 {{p.|965–986}}. {{BNF|387176603}} * ''Quatre femmes musiciennes '': Jacquet de La Guerre, Hélène de Montgeroult, Louise Bertin, Louise Farrenc, ''L’Art'' 2nd series, volume 4 (1894), (pp.&nbsp;107–112, 142–147, 177–183/183–187), [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1066612z/f131.item Jacquet de La Guerre], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1066612z/f181.image Hélène de Montgeroult], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1066612z/f232.item Louise Bertin et L. Farrenc]. * ''Les Opéras féminins'', ''Gazette musicale de la Suisse Romande'', 28 February 1895, (pp.&nbsp;68–72). * "Jean Mouton", ''Tribune de Saint-Gervais'' 5 (1899), (pp.&nbsp;323–334). * "Guy d’Arezzo", Ponthus Teutonicus et l’abbé Odon », ''Tribune de Saint-Gervais'' 8 (1902), (pp.&nbsp;121). * ''L’amitié de Berlioz et de Liszt'', ''Guide musical'' 50 (1904), (pp.&nbsp;595–687). * {{Cite news|language=fr|title=Deux comptes de la chapelle-musique des rois de France |journal=Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft |volume=6 |issue=1 |location=Leipzig |date = October–December 1904 |pages=1–31|id=Brenet1904 |issn=1612-0124 |oclc=6733321354 |jstor=929008 |url =https://archive.org/details/SammelbndeDerInternationalenMusikgesellschaft061904-05 }}. * {{Cite news|language=fr|title=Les débuts de l'abonnement de musique|journal=Mercure Musical|volume=2 |issue=19/20|location=Paris |date=15 October 1906|pages=256–273|id=Brenet1906|issn=1763-7287|oclc=843350862|url=http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/cgi-bin/bluemtn?a=d&d=bmtnabh19061015-01.2.7 }} * ''Mme de Genlis musicienne'', ''Revue musicale S.I.M.'' 2 (1912), (pp.&nbsp;1–14) [http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/cgi-bin/bluemtn?a=d&d=bmtnabh19120215-01.2.1 Read online]. * ''{{ill|L'Année musicale|fr}}'' (F. Alcan) ** [https://archive.org/details/lannemusicale19111bren L'Année musicale 1911 vol. 1] on archive.org, ''Deux traductions françaises inédites des institutions harmoniques de Zarlino'' (1911) (pp.&nbsp;125–144). ** [https://archive.org/details/lannemusicale19122bren L'Année musicale 1912 vol. 2] on archive.org, Participe à la bibliographie uniquement ** [https://archive.org/details/lannemusicale19133bren L'Année musicale 1913 vol. 3] on archive.org, ''Bibliographie des bibliographies musicales'', Année musicale (1913), (pp.&nbsp;1–52), {{BNF|42877079j}}

=== Publisher === Marie Bobillier published music scores by Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly at M. Senart (before 1909).<ref>For example for the Opus 34 on [http://data.bnf.fr/cross-documents/12515495/15519537/360/page1 Bnf] (identical information on the others):</ref> * ''30 caprices'', opus 2 (1816)<ref>{{BNF|139660700}}</ref> * 24 pieces for piano, opus 22 (1858)<ref>{{BNF|15519537t}}</ref> * Pieces for piano, opus 34 (1810)<ref>{{BNF|15519539h}}</ref> * Pieces for piano, opus 47 (1846)<ref>{{BNF|155195501}}</ref> * Pieces for piano, opus 48 (1848–51)<ref>{{BNF|15519554d}}</ref> * Pieces for piano, opus 50 (1816–1854)<ref>{{BNF|155195830}}</ref> * Pieces for piano, opus 51 (1853)<ref>{{BNF|15519569f}}</ref> * Pieces for piano, opus 52 (1853)<ref>{{BNF|15519558s}}</ref> * Pieces for piano, opus 55 (1855)<ref>{{BNF|155195741}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

=== Sources === * {{Cite news|last=La Laurencie|first=Lionel de|language=fr|title=Nécrologie|journal=Bulletin de la Société française de musicologie|volume=1|issue=4|year=1919|pages=199–202|jstor =924813}} * {{Cite journal|last=La France|first=Albert|language=fr|title=Les femmes musiciennes sous les Bourbon d'après les documents inédits de Marie Bobillier|journal=Revue de musique des universités canadiennes|volume=16|issue=1|year=1995|pages=60–73|doi=10.7202/1014416ar|url=http://www.erudit.org/revue/cumr/1995/v16/n1/1014416ar.pdf}} * {{Cite encyclopedia|last1=Pereyra|first1=Marie Louise|last2=Cooper|first2=Jeffrey|chapter=Brenet, Michel [Bobillier, (Antoinette Christine) Marie]|encyclopedia=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|editor=Stanley Sadie|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|year=2001|isbn=9780195170672|doi = 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03932}} * {{Cite book|last=Vignal|first=Marc|author-link=Marc Vignal|language=fr|title=Dictionnaire de la musique|publisher=Éditions Larousse|location=Paris|year=2005|isbn=978-2-03-505545-3|oclc=896013420|page=122|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1200510r/f128.image}}

==Further reading== * {{Cite book|last=Goubault|first=Christian|language =fr|title=La critique musicale dans la presse française de 1870 à 1914|publisher=Slatkine|location=Geneva|year=1984|isbn=978-2051005425|oclc=12051683|page=535|ref=none}}

== External links == * {{IMSLP|id=Brenet, Michel|cname= Michel Brenet / Marie Bobillier}} * [http://dictionnaire.metronimo.com/index.php?a=index&d=1 ''Dictionnaire pratique et historique de la musique'' (1926)] * [http://bne.fr/page116.html Marie Bobillier] on Bleu nuit éditeur * [http://www.idref.fr/034395075 Marie Bobillier] on IdRef {{Authority control}}

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