Emilie Corswarem

From the palace to the church: the activity of members of the Orsini, Borghese, Barberini, Ottoboni and Aldobrandini families.

Emilie Coswarem received her doctorate in History, Art and Archeology (Musicology) from the Liège University (2008) and is chercheur qualifié FRS-FNRS and Maître de conférences at Liège Univerity.

After coordinating the project Le modèle musical des églises nationales à Rome à l’époque baroque (Marie Curie Programme-Université de Liège), she currently co-directs the project Musique et Processus identitaire: le cas des églises nationales romaines (16th and 17th centuries) with Marie-Alexis Colin (FRS-FNRS, Université de Liège-Université libre de Bruxelles).

Her research focuses on musical life in the 16th and 17th centuries in the ancient Netherlands, in the principality of Liège and in the city of Rome. She has dedicated a series of publications on music in urban milieus, musical patronage, the reception of the madrigal and national churches in Rome.

Publications

[con Michela Berti] Music and the Identity Process : the National Churches in Rome in the Early Modern Period (Titolo da precisare) – in preparazione per la collezione « Épitome musical », Turnhout, Brepols (2017).

« Musique, espace et identité : le cas des églises nationales à Rome », Culture du spectacle baroque entre Italie et ancien Pays-Bas, a cura di Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse, Koen Vermeir e Caroline Heering, Rome, Institut historique belge, (2017), 25 p.

Requiem pour Marie de Médicis. Une œuvre emblématique de la vie musicale à Liège sous Ferdinand de Bavière – in preparazione per la collezione « Épitome musical », Turnhout, Brepols (2017).

« Una nazione ricostruita. Musica e feste della confraternite tedesche e fiamminghe a Roma nel Seicento », Europäische Musiker in Venedig, Rom und Neapel, a cura di A.-M. Goulet e G. zur Nieden, Cassel, Bärenreiter (Analecta musicologica, 52), (2015), p. 425-440.

« The Liber fratrum cruciferorum leodiensium and Circulation of Organ Repertoire in the Netherlands », Network of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. A collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary, a cura di David J. Smith e Rachelle Taylor, Ashgate, Farnham, (2013) p. 31-48.