Jean-Michel Nectoux
Jean-Michel Nectoux (born 20 November 1946) is a French
Life and career
Nectoux was born in Le Raincy, a suburb of Paris. From 1964 to 1968 he studied law at the University of Paris, and at the Sorbonne, from 1968 to 1970, he studied musicology with Yves Gérard and musical aesthetics with Vladimir Jankélévitch.[1] His doctoral thesis was on Gabriel Fauré and the theatre.[2] After completing a course in librarianship at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Bibliothèques (1969–70), he was appointed chief librarian of the Bibliothéque municipale de Versailles (1970–72), and went on to head the music department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1972–85), where he oversaw major exhibitions about Ravel, Fauré, the Ballets Russes, Stravinsky, and Mahler.[3]
Nectoux joined the
Alongside his official appointments, Nectoux was secretary of the Répertoire international de littérature musicale (RILM) from 1972 to 1985, and assistant editor of the Revue de musicologie (1979–82). In 1980 he founded the musicological series Harmoniques, which included the publication of the complete correspondence of
Nectoux's specialist areas of research focus on French music, literature and the arts in the years from 1850 to 1925; his studies have included
Notes
- ^ a b Gribenski, Jean. "Nectoux, Jean-Michel", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 14 January 2015 (subscription required)
- ^ "Jean-Michel Nectoux", L'encyclopédie Larousse, retrieved 14 January 2105
- ^ a b c d Millot, Jean-Baptiste. "Jean-Michel Nectoux", Les tetes des art, 30 July 2012
