Dominique Visse: The Art and Craft of Musical Calligraphy

Dominique Visse, 71, an instrumentalist, singer, and founder and director of the Ensemble Clément Janequin—which he still leads—is also a music copyist. He has just donated 23 new handwritten scores to the library collection of Les Arts Florissants, for whom he once worked as a transcriber. Copies of works by Charpentier and, more unusually, Moulinié and Grandi… The renowned haute-contre looks back on this little-known craft.