Roger Cotte

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Roger Cotte (1921–1999) was a French recorder player and musicologist. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Gaston Crunelle from 1940 to 1948. In 1953 he founded and led the Group of Ancient Instruments of Paris. In 1961 he earned a Ph.D. in musicology from the Sorbonne, where he also directed the musicology laboratory. He taught flute at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. Cotte wrote music for films, including Oh, If Only My Monk Would Want (Ah! Si mon moine voulait…) and Justine de Sade by Claude Pierson. From 1984 to 1992 he taught at the State University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, where he started an early music group. He published La musique maçonnique et ses musiciens, Musique et symbolisme, and a notebook of masonic songs. His research focused on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Masonic music in Mozart, Beethoven, and Hummel.