Institutes - Cultural centers Yvelines

A direct heir from the Ecole des Pages du Roi, CNR is housed in a th century building, the hotel de la Chancellery, in a street adjacent to Versailles castle. The institution (structured in 3 departments: music, drama and dance) is the primary vocation of allowing everyone to access the art under the vigilance and guidance of the 80 teachers, renowned artists, who make every year 1 400 pupils (young children, amateurs and future professionals from France and abroad), among which one quarter in the established hours (to follow musical lessons or to navigate along with their music) General studies). A place of learning, culture and exchange, the Conservatory also participates throughout the year in the animation of the city through numerous concerts, theatre pieces or dance performances, and even hearings open to the public.

The CMB provides a mission for the study and dissemination of the French musical heritage of the th and th centuries, until little or little known and a large part of which was composed for the Court of Versailles. Thanks to a multidisciplinary team of researchers, publishers, pedagogues, producers and musicians, who restored, restored and "re-established" the forgotten or incomplete works of the Grand Century, it is now possible to recognize the airs, motets and messes of the air, and the talent, among other things, of Jean-Joseph Mouret, the composer of the Italian Comedy (where Pierre Sueca de Chamblain de Marivaux is concerned), who organised all of them. The great evenings of the castle of Seal, where the little girls of Louis XIV lived. Each autumn, the CMBV carries out a season of baroque concerts, in the Royal Opera or the chapel of the Château de Versailles, during which the best ensembles and soloists, specialists in the interpretation of ancient music, occur on stage.