Le traitement du fonds César Franck au Département de la musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, ou deux catalogues pour un même fonds

In 1946 and 1947, César Franck’s granddaughter Thérèse Chopy donated to the Music department of the Bibliothèque nationale what remained of her grandfather’s archive, consisting of autograph music manuscripts, the printed scores received as prize books during his studies at the conservatories of Liège and Paris, some archival material, as well as some documentation collected by his  relatives. his
fonds covers the whole life of the musician, and includes among others the manuscripts of a number of works unknown elsewhere, some of which remain unpublished. The lecture will of course describe the main features of the fonds, but above all use it as a case study to explain the new rules applied since 2013 by the Music department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France for the description of its archival fonds, involving both the “BnF Archives et manuscrits” (BAM) catalogue with search instruments in EAD and the general catalogue (CatGén) with bibliographic records in MARC format.