Centre Européen de Musique
Centre Européen de Musique
Centre Européen de Musique

Cultural and touristic experience

The Centre Européen de Musique s’inscrit ainsi au cœur de ce patrimoine unique valorisé par la création d’un ambitieux parcours culturel et touristique à l’échelle de la ville, de la vallée de la Seine, du département et de la région.

The City of Bougival is the heir of an extremely rich artistic, musical and cultural heritage which makes it unique in the history of the arts in the 19th century in France and in Europe.

The Centre Européen de Musique at the heart of this unique heritage, enhanced by the an ambitious cultural and tourism programme addressing the city of Bougival, the Seine valley and the region.

The programming of the Villa Viardot also involves joint work with the Bougival town council and local associations: the Association of Friends of Ivan Tourguéniev, Pauline Viardot and Maria Malibran, and the Association of Friends of Georges Bizet, co-founded by Jorge Chaminé and Benita Carteron.

 

A unique location, an exceptional cultural heritage

The restoration work on the Viardot Villa has officialy begun" data-catid="[1]">salon musical et littéraire du Domaine des Frênes accueille entre autres Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas père et fils, Victor Hugo, Henry James et Charles Dickens.

Ce salon voit naître un esprit de dialogue entre les disciplines et l’esquisse d’une conscience européenne, fruits des échanges entre artistes et intellectuels engagés dans l’action sociale et politique.

En 1874, c’est également à Bougival que s’installe Georges Bizet. Au seuil de sa vie, l’artiste y compose Carmen, opéra qui deviendra l’un des plus joués au monde. Ecrin de création, sa maison au bord de la Seine fût également sa dernière demeure.

 

 

The Pauline Viardot radio podcast ''Vénérer''" data-catid="[1]">Pauline García Viardot et son mari Louis Viardot, grands amis d’Ivan Tourgueniev, installés à Bougival de 1870 à 1884, font de leur villa un lieu de rencontre. Le salon musical et littéraire du Domaine des Frênes accueille entre autres Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas père et fils, Victor Hugo, Henry James et Charles Dickens.

Ce salon voit naître un esprit de dialogue entre les disciplines et l’esquisse d’une conscience européenne, fruits des échanges entre artistes et intellectuels engagés dans l’action sociale et politique.

En 1874, c’est également à Bougival que s’installe Georges Bizet. Au seuil de sa vie, l’artiste y compose Carmen, opéra qui deviendra l’un des plus joués au monde. Ecrin de création, sa maison au bord de la Seine fût également sa dernière demeure.

 

 

 

Revealed by William Turner around 1830, the site of Bougival quickly became one of the birthplaces of Impressionism, painted by Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet and many others. Bougival then became a popular holiday resort for Parisians, where many artists and intellectuals of the time resided.

The singer and composer Pauline García Viardot and her husband Louis Viardot, great friends of Ivan Tourgueniev, who lived in Bougival from 1870 to 1884, created a cultural hub with their villa. This music and literature salon of the Domaine des Frênes has been visited by Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas father and son, Victor Hugo, Henry James and Charles Dickens, amongst others.

This salon inspired a dialogue between disciplines and created the outline of a European consciousness, enhanced by passionate conversations between artists and intellectuals engaged in social and political action at the time.

In 1874, Georges Bizet also settled in Bougival. On the threshold of his life, the artist composed Carmen, an opera which would become one of the most performed in the world. His house on the banks of the Seine river was also his final residence.

 

 

Centre Européen de Musique

Cultural and touristic experience

The City of Bougival is the heir of an extremely rich artistic, musical and cultural heritage which makes it unique in the history of the arts in the 19th century in France and in Europe.

The Centre Européen de Musique at the heart of this unique heritage, enhanced by the an ambitious cultural and tourism programme addressing the city of Bougival, the Seine valley and the region.

The programming of the Villa Viardot also involves joint work with the Bougival town council and local associations: the Association of Friends of Ivan Tourguéniev, Pauline Viardot and Maria Malibran, and the Association of Friends of Georges Bizet, co-founded by Jorge Chaminé and Benita Carteron.

 

A unique location, an exceptional cultural heritage

Revealed by William Turner around 1830, the site of Bougival quickly became one of the birthplaces of Impressionism, painted by Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet and many others. Bougival then became a popular holiday resort for Parisians, where many artists and intellectuals of the time resided.

The singer and composer Pauline García Viardot and her husband Louis Viardot, great friends of Ivan Tourgueniev, who lived in Bougival from 1870 to 1884, created a cultural hub with their villa. This music and literature salon of the Domaine des Frênes has been visited by Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas father and son, Victor Hugo, Henry James and Charles Dickens, amongst others.

This salon inspired a dialogue between disciplines and created the outline of a European consciousness, enhanced by passionate conversations between artists and intellectuals engaged in social and political action at the time.

In 1874, Georges Bizet also settled in Bougival. On the threshold of his life, the artist composed Carmen, an opera which would become one of the most performed in the world. His house on the banks of the Seine river was also his final residence.