Социокултурални и професионални проблеми на духовника-музикант и ерудит в епохата на „Краля-Слънце"
Socio-cultural and Professional Problems of the Clergy-musician and Erudite in the "King-Sun" Epoch

Summary/Abstract: After researching extensively on publications dedicated to Sebastian de Brossard who is the author of the first musical dictionary in spoken language (French), and made an integral representation of his life and work, I decided to take this phenomenon of a person as a model on which to lay my musings and views on the socio-cultural and professional problems of the clergy-musician and erudite in the King Sun, Louis XIV, epoch. The text aims at presenting not only the conditions of life and work of persons at that time, who usually combined in themselves the clergymen and the musicians (being typically non first born sons of noble families), but also the challenges that time and social conditions posed as stimulate and hindrances alike to overcome on the way to professional development. Sebastian de Brossard is the actual example by his diversity of activities performed: clergyman, musician (performer and composer, theoretician, historian, teacher, lexicographer), bibliophil and bibliographer collector (in the field of musical theory and practice mainly), and all that while strictly following his daily routine of a clergyman.

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