March 27 - Conference at the Free University of Brussels - Music and FM

12.03.2012

Conference. Freemasonry and musical sociability in the Enlightenment: the triumph of amateurs.

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Masonic Studies Chair

The Chair Verhaegen holds an annual conference whose goal is to offer the university community and the general public scientific papers on a topic related to Freemasonry in its historical, sociological, anthropological, and artistic aspects.

The speaker will be in 2012 Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire who will speak

Tuesday, March 27 at 20h

in Brussels on the theme of

Freemasonry and musical sociability in the Enlightenment: the triumph of the amateurs.

Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire is a professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. He taught the history of Freemasonry in Brussels, San Francisco and Tokyo.

The conference will be followed by a concert by the Le Petit Sablon Ensamble on the theme Echoes of musical practices in the French and Austrian lodges in the eighteenth century (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ignaz Vitzthumb, and arrangements of Jacques-Christophe Naudot and Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny).

Université Libre de Bruxelles
Campus Solbosch
Auditorium K.1.105
Building K, Level 1 (access avenue Adolphe Buyl 87A - 1050 Brussels)
Contact & Information : http://www.ulb.ac.be/facs/philo/verhaegen2012.html