This website provides a portal to two collections of resources for researchers interested in music criticism and in the more general musical culture of the nineteenth century in France.

• a repository of digitized, searchable reviews relating to French music and ballet in the nineteenth century. Texts are grouped into collections devoted to particular works, events, series, performers or authors, resulting in a significant corpus of texts never before available on open access.
• bibliographical resources and work in progress of a more general nature, contributed by members of the Network and mounted in the hope that users will contribute updates.

The project is managed by the joint directors of the former AHRC-funded Network in Francophone Music Criticism, 1789 - 1914, Katharine Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London/former Director, Institute of Musical Research) and Mark Everist (University of Southampton). It is hosted by the Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 

The Network began with around 30 members, and now has 110. We are an ever-expanding group of academics, librarians, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Meetings are routinely bilingual (French/English). Anyone who would like to join the Network, via our e-discussion list, is very welcome to email k.ellis@rhul.ac.uk. 

We run at least one international event per year. In 2010 our first event was generously hosted on 3-4 November by the American Musicological Society at its annual meeting in Indianapolis (schedule here). A second international meeting took place in Brussels, 17-18 December 2010 (schedule here). 

Our 2011 meeting took place on 30 June and 1 July at the University of London Institute in Paris. We were most grateful to ULIP for their generous hosting of this event (schedule here).

Our meeting for 2012 is scheduled for 12-13 July, also at the University of London Institute in Paris.

The Network is, following the expiry of its two-year award, funded from various sources whose grants have enabled the creation of the Network's web resource. To see a full list of funders, click here.

Network members (UK)
Katharine Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Mark Everist (University of Southampton)
Laura Hamer (The Open University)
Sarah Hibberd (University of Nottingham)
Barbara Kelly (University of Keele)
Richard Langham Smith (Royal College of Music)
Candida Mantica (University of Southampton)
Helen Julia Minors (Kingston)
Rachel Moore (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Delphine Mordey (University of Cambridge)
Cormac Newark (University of Ulster)
Francesca Placanica (University of Southampton)
Clair Rowden (Cardiff University)
Benjamin Walton (University of Cambridge)

Network members (Continental EU)
Olivier Bara (Université Lyon 2)
Aurélie Branger (Paris)
Sylvie Douche (Université Paris IV - Sorbonne)
Valérie Dufour (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Bérengère de l'Épine (CNSMDP)
Pauline Girard (Bibliothèque Historique de Ville de Paris)
Malou Haine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Léo Houziaux (Académie Royale de Belgique)
Arnold Jacobshagen (Hochschule für Musik Köln)
Karl Leich-Galland (Saarbrücken)
Hervé Lacombe (Université de Rennes II)
Marie-Cécile Leblanc (Université de Paris III - Nouvelle Sorbonne)
Catherine Massip (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Jean Mongrédien (Université Paris IV - Sorbonne)
Jean-Michel Nectoux (Institut National d'Histoire d'Art)
Vincenzina Ottomano (University of Bern)
Alban Ramaut (Université de Saint-Etienne)
Paul Raspé (Conservatoire de Bruxelles)
Marie-Hélène Saghai-Coudroy (CNSMDP)
Herbert Schneider (University of Saarland)
Stephanie Schroeter (University of Bayreuth)
Margaux Sladden (Université LIbre de Bruxelles)
Marie-Gabrielle Soret (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Sandrine Thieffry (Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique)
Henri Vanhulst (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Robert Wangermée (Conseil de la Musique, Belgium)
Laura Watson (National U. of Ireland, Maynooth)

Network members (RoW)
Peter Bloom (Smith College)
Francesca Brittan (Case Western Reserve)
Davinia Caddy (University of Auckland)
Maribeth Clark (New College of Florida)
Willa Collins (University of Miami)
Andrew Deruchie (University of Ottawa)
Michel Duchesneau (Université de Montréal)
Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Catrina Flint de Médicis (Vanier College)
William Gibbons (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Donald Gislason (Montréal)
Louise Goldberg (Eastman School, Rochester)
David Grayson (University of Minnesota)
Bruce Gustafson (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA)
Sarah Gutsche-Miller (SSHRC / Columbia University)
Diana Hallman (University of Kentucky)
Rebecca Harris-Warwick (Cornell University)
Steven Huebner (McGill University)
Katherine Kolb (Southeastern Louisiana University)
Sylvia L'Écuyer (Université de Montréal)
Julia Lu (University of Melbourne)
Francois de Médicis (Université de Montréal)
Kerry Murphy (University of Melbourne)
Jann Pasler (University of California at San Diego)
Michela Niccolai Philipidhis (Université de Montréal)
Marian Smith (University of Oregon)
Sabina Teller Ratner (Université de Montréal)
Danick Trottier (Université de Montréal)
Jacqueline Waeber (Duke University)
Kimberly White (McGill University)
Lesley Wright (University of Hawaii)

Network associates
Emma Adlard (King's College London)
Gurminder Bhogal (Wellesley College)
George Biddlecombe (Royal Academy of Music)
Jean-Christophe Branger (Université St-Etienne)
Carlo Caballero (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Rémy Campos (CNSMDP)
David Code (University of Glasgow)
Irène Deliège (Université de Liège)
Itzana Dobbelaere (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Romy-Léa Faustin (Université de Montréal)
Jonathan Hicks (University of Oxford) 
Martin Kalternecker (Université Paris VII / EHESS)
Nizam Peter Kettaneh (New York)
Ralph Locke (Eastman School of Music)
Anna McCready (Royal College of Music)
Kelly Maynard (Grinnell College)
Terry Needham (Queen's University, Belfast)
Francesco Parralejo Masa (Cambridge)
Caroline Potter (Kingston University)
Emmanuel Reibel (UNiversité Paris X - Nanterre)
Jesse Rosenberg (Northwestern University)
James Ross (London)
Julian Rushton (University of Leeds)
Ora Frishberg Saloman (Baruch College, New York)
Anneke Scott (London)
Mark Samples (University of Oregon)
Rainer Schmusch (University of Freiburg)
Kristen Strandberg (Indiana University)
Michael Strasser (Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio)
Mia Tootill (Cornell University)
Hanae Tsukada (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Lena Vigilante (Melbourne)
Paul Watt (Monash)
Flora Willson (King's College London)