Roger Cotte
{{Short description|French musicologist and musician}}
Roger Cotte (1921 in Clamart – 1999) was a 20th-century French recorder player and musicologist.
Career
Cotte studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris with Gaston Crunelle from 1940 to 1948. He created and directed since 1953 the Group of Ancient Instruments of Paris. In 1961, he obtained a Ph.D. in musicology from the Sorbonne, where he directed the musicology laboratory. He taught flute at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. He signed a few film music (Justine de Sade by Claude Pierson). From 1984 to 1992, he taught at the State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he founded an early music group. He published La musique maçonnique et ses musiciens, Musique et symbolisme[https://ethnomusicologie.revues.org/2355 Musique et symbolisme on Cahiers d'ethnomusicologie] and a notebook of masonic songs.
His musical research has focused on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Masonic music in Mozart, Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Publications
- 1958: Méthode complète de flûte à bec (ou flûte douce),[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/659276069 Méthode complète de flûte à bec (ou flûte douce)] Paris
- 1959: Encyclopédie des grands compositeurs, Paris
- 1961: Compositeurs français émigrés en Suède, thèse de doctorat, Paris
- 1973: Précis d'organologie, in: L'éducation musicale
- 1974: La musique maçonnique et ses musiciens,[https://books.google.com/books?id=wTL0AAAAMAAJ La musique maçonnique et ses musiciens] Paris
- Les textes de Voltaire mis en musique
- 1976: Jean-Jacques Rousseau musicien[http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb397414318 Jean-Jacques Rousseau musicien] on the site of the BNF
References
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External links
- [http://musiqueclassique.forumpro.fr/t12181-roger-cotte-flute Roger Cotte, flûte] on Musique classique forum
- [http://www.persee.fr/doc/dhs_0070-6760_1976_num_8_1_2843_t1_0520_0000_5 Roger Cotte,La Musique maçonnique et ses musiciens.1975 (compte rendu)] on Persée
- [https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/1764397-Roger-Cotte Roger Cotte discography] on Discogs
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed4EsQIEVSI Roger Cotte A ARTE DA FLAUTA LA GUERRE] on YouTube
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Category:French classical flautists
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