{{Short description|French music award}} {{expand french|Prix Chartier}} The '''Prix Chartier''' (Chartier Prize) was a musical composition prize established in 1859 and awarded by the Académie des beaux-arts of the Institut de France. It was awarded annually from 1861 to 1942 and was intended to reward excellence in chamber music.{{sfn|Pâris|1999|page=283}}
==History== This prize owes its name and existence to Charles-Hyacinthe-Suzain-Jean Chartier,{{sfn|Fétis|1880|page=172}} a music lover living in the commune of Breteil, in the first arrondissement of Paris, who died on 7 July 1858.<ref>{{cite web |title=Archives d'état civil d'Ille-et-Vilaine, commune de Breteil, année 1858, acte de décès n° 18, vue 5/7 |url=http://archives-en-ligne.ille-et-vilaine.fr/thot_internet/FrmLotDocFrame.asp?idlot=67753&idfic=0298044&ref=0298082&appliCindoc=THOPWREG&resX=1280&resY=800&init=1&visionneuseHTML5=0 |website=archives-en-ligne.ille-et-vilaine.fr |access-date=28 March 2020 |language=fr}}</ref> The funds came from the sale of autograph letters by Nicolas Poussin, purchased from Chartier by the Bibliothèque impériale.{{sfn|Fauquet |2003|page=255}} In his will, he wrote:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54669k/f654.item|title=Académie des beaux-arts, Le Journal des sçavans |date=October 1861 |page=650}}</ref>
:"I give and bequeath to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institut de France an annual income of seven hundred francs, for one hundred years, in favor of the best works of chamber music, trios, quartets, etc., that most closely approach the masterpieces of this genre."
The bequest was validated by imperial decree on 15 January 1859<ref>{{cite web |url=https://education.persee.fr/doc/baip_1254-0714_1859_num_10_109_8420 |title=Legs fait à l'Académie des beaux-arts par M. Chartier |work=Bulletin administratif de l'instruction publique |volume=10 |number=109 |date=1859 |page=4–4 |access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref> and formalized at the annual public meeting of the Académie des beaux-arts on 12 October 1861:<ref>{{citation |work=Académie des Beaux-Arts. Séance publique annuelle du samedi 12 octobre 1861. |title=Programme de la séance |page=18}}</ref>
:"The Academy, having had two of these annuities at its disposal this year, awarded on February 23 last the prize founded by M. Chartier to M. Charles Dancla, professor at the Imperial Conservatory of Music. At its meeting on September 28 last, it awarded this prize to Mme. Farrenc, professor at the Imperial Conservatory. It appreciated in M. Ch. Dancla's compositions an elegant, correct style, inspired by the best traditions; in those of Mme. Farrenc, several of whose works were applauded at the Conservatory's concerts, a lofty and masterful style."
The first two recipients were Charles Dancla, for the year 1860, and Louise Farrenc for 1861. Farrenc was also awarded the prize in 1869, and was one of only three women to receive the prize (along with Clémence de Grandval (1890){{sfn|Fauquet |2003|page=255}} and Henriette Renié (1916)).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6319068k/f14.item |title=Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets |via=Gallica |date=6 June 1916 |access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref>
==See also== *Prix Rossini
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book |author-link=François-Joseph Fétis |first=François-Joseph |last=Fétis |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k697260/f190.image |title=Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Supplément et complément |volume=1 |publisher=under the direction of M. Arthur Pougin, Paris, Librairie Firmin Didot |date=1880 |page=172}} * {{cite book |author-link=Alain Pâris |first=Alain |last=Pâris |chapter=Chartier, Charles-Jean |editor1-link=Walter Willson Cobbett |editor1-first=Walter Willson |editor1-last=Cobbett |editor2-link=Colin Mason |editor2-first=Colin |editor2-last=Mason |editor3-first=Marie-Stella |editor3-last=Pâris |title=Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la musique de chambre |volume=I : A–J |location=Paris |publisher=Éditions Robert Laffont, coll. « Bouquins » |date=1999 |OCLC=43700186 |pages=282–283}} * {{cite book |chapter=Chartier, prix |editor-link=Joël-Marie Fauquet |editor-first=Joël-Marie |editor-last=Fauquet |title=Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle (BNF 39052242) |publisher=Fayard |date=2003 |OCLC=936927646 |p=255}}
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