Promoting French music and culture from Venice

Palazzetto Bru Zane STORIE VENEZIANE #10. Bru Zane Replay offers videos of performances and concerts recorded in recent years by the Palazzetto Bru Zane or by partner institutions.Bru Zane Replay offers videos of performances and concerts recorded in recent years by the Palazzetto Bru Zane or by partner institutions. The mischievousness of operetta, the connivance of chamber music, the contemplation of the sacred repertoire, the power. For a hundred years, the Casino Zane, built between 1695 and 1697 at San Polo near the Basilica dei Frari, housed the entertainments of the Zane family, who resided in the adjacent Palazzo Zane. As an engraving by Carlevarijs shows, the main palace (now a training school, the Istituto “Livio Sanudo”) was separated from the Palazzetto by a formal garden. The building next to the Palazzetto.

The history of Venice is now highlighted by a new dynamism in every aspect of creative activity. After important restoration work, the casino Zane, designed in the seventeenth century as a place for music, has been brought back to life thanks to the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française, which it houses

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In Venice, where many great French composers stayed, especially in the nineteenth century – and notably thanks to the Prix de Rome – this centre aims to contribute to the rediscovery of a whole section of the French musical heritage of the years 1780 to 1920 that has been unjustly neglected.

A Centre devoted to French music of the Romantic period

The mission of the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française is to study, publish and promote the French Romantic repertoire (1780-1920). It is above all a centre for musicological research, aiming to meet the hitherto unsatisfied needs of artists and specialists interested in this repertoire and to be the springboard for concerts in co-production.
Aiming to bring together all who are interested in this music, the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française works in partnership with institutions in Europe, Asia and America for the dissemination of the French repertoire.
The musicological work, carried out in collaboration with conservatoires, universities and research centres, leads to symposia, digitising campaigns, the cataloguing of musical collections, and so on. Rare scores are published, along with theoretical works, correspondence and memoirs, with the aim of reviving and enabling a better understanding of the Romantic period, and bringing to light composers and works that have been unjustly forgotten.
Each season concerts and other events are organised in Venice. In connection with these, and with the aim of enabling a wider audience to discover French Romantic music, these works are also performed at many concerts organised in France, elsewhere in Europe, and in Asia.
Finally, the Palazzetto Bru Zane — Centre de musique romantique française works with various record labels and encourages through its support the recording of rare works from the French Romantic repertoire.

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“When I seek another word for music,
I only ever find the word ‘Venice’.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ensuring the thriving of culture

Preserving our cultural heritage, encouraging the emergence of new talents, broadening the dissemination of knowledge, and sharing emotions, are the priorities that guide the Fondation Bru in its cultural patronage.

Bru Zane Classical Radio

Casino Zane

Restoring a Venetian palazzetto

PNicole Bru, who is a great lover of Venice, was delighted to discover in 2006, away from the tourist track, the discreetly charming Casino Zane. She bought this seventeenth-century palazzetto with the ambitious aim of restoring it to its former glory and returning it to its original purpose as a place devoted to music.

Palazzetto Bru Zane

Reviving French Romantic music

The history of Venice is now highlighted by a new dynamism in every aspect of creative activity. After important restoration work, the casino Zane, has been brought back to life thanks to the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française, which it houses. Through its activities in the fields of research, publishing and the organisation and presentation of concerts, this foundation in Venice aims to obtain greater recognition for French composers of the years 1780–1920 and to revive works that have been unjustly forgotten.

Concert Spirituel

Supporting Hervé Niquet and baroque music

Drs Jean and Nicole Bru gave their unfailing support to Le Concert Spirituel from the moment it was formed in 1987 by the composer and conductor Hervé Niquet. Nicole Bru perpetuates the foundation’s commitment to the revival of forgotten masterpieces of French Baroque. Le Concert Spirituel is now a reference, both in France and internationally, for the performance of Baroque music on early instruments.

Gilles Caron

Contributing to greater awareness of the works of an artist

Covering the major world conflicts of his time, Gilles Caron was a talented photojournalist. His photographs marked their time. As a great lover of photography, Nicole Bru wished to join with the Fondation Gilles Caron in paying tribute to the skill, audacity and courage of the photojournalist Gilles Caron and in giving him his rightful place in the history of journalism and photography (through exhibitions and publications).
As a great lover of photography, Nicole Bru wished to join with the Fondation Gilles Caron in paying tribute to the skill, audacity and courage of the photojournalist Gilles Caron and in giving him his rightful place in the history of journalism and photography (through exhibitions and publications).

A Success Story

Palazzetto Bru Zane

In the twentieth century, the history of the Bru family was closely linked to the meteoric rise of the pharmaceutical company it had created and developed with enthusiasm and success for 60 years.

Casino Bru Zanesville

A Woman of Conviction

“What counts in life is one’s capacity to influence the course of things!” That is the belief of Nicole Bru, doctor, researcher and businesswoman.