Geneviève Thibault de Chambure, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Geneviève Thibault de Chambure

musicologist

Date of Birth: 20-May-1902

Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 31-Aug-1975

Profession: musicologist, patron of the arts

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Geneviève, comtesse Hubert de Chambure Thibault (20 June 1902, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 31 August 1975, Strasbourg) was a French musicologist associated with the revival of interest in early music.
She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1920 with a thesis on John Dowland and in 1925 co-founded the Société de musique d'autrefois, designed to promote the publication de musical texts (from 1954) and a magazine les Annales musicologiques (from 1955).
From 1961 to 1973, she was curator of the historical instrumentals of the Conservatoire de Paris - in addition to having amassed her own private collection.
She was an important muse and teacher to the first generation of baroque specialists, including young Americans in Paris - William Christie (harpsichordist) and soprano Judith Nelson.
In 1967 she founded the Laboratoire d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale at the CNRS, which was the first national center for the research of music iconography, later becoming the French national center of the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM).