Grand Prix du Disque for Baroque Music
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The Grand Prix du Disque for Baroque Music is awarded by L'Académie Charles Cros
L'Académie Charles Cros
The Académie Charles-Cros, is an organization in France that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry....

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The following is a partial list of winners:

2005

  • Vincent Dumestre
    Vincent Dumestre
    Vincent Dumestre is a French lutenist. In 1997 he founded the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique.He studied the classical guitar at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and art history at the École du Louvre...

     for his recording of Jean-Baptiste Lully
    Jean-Baptiste Lully
    Jean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...

    : Le bourgeois Gentilhomme.

1980

  • Academy of Ancient Music
    Academy of Ancient Music
    The Academy of Ancient Music is a period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England. Founded by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in 1973, it was named after a previous organisation of the same name of the 18th century. The musicians play on either original instruments or modern copies of...

     for their recording of Jean-Féry Rebel
    Jean-Féry Rebel
    Jean-Féry Rebel was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Rebel , a son of the singer Jean Rebel, a tenor in Louis XIV's private chapel, was a child violin prodigy. He became, at the age of eight, one of his father's most famous musical offspring. Later, he was a student...

    : Les Élémens and André Cardinal Destouches
    André Cardinal Destouches
    André Cardinal Destouches was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens....

    : Les Éléments.
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