Hervé Lacombe () is a French musicologist, a professor at the University Rennes 2 since 2002 and a specialist of

music of France In France, music reflects a diverse array of styles. In the field of classical music, France has produced several prominent Romantic music, romantic composers, while folk and popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. Th ...

. He is the author of several works on the

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

and two biographies, one of

Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', w ...

and the other of

Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodie, songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among th ...

Biography

Hervé Lacombe studied at the université Lyon II, and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, before passing his aggregation of music and to support a doctoral thesis and a university degree in

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

. He received a scholarship from the

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...

and a delegation to the

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

. Initially a lecturer at the University of Metz, he has been a professor at the université Rennes 2 since 2002. Hervé Lacombe is a member of the editorial board of the monumental edition ''L’Opéra français'', Bärenreiter-Verlag, and of the International Advisory Panel of the ''Journal of the Royal Musical Association''.

Publications

*1997: ''Les Voies de l'opéra français au XIXe siècle'',

Fayard Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayar ...

, 392 p., prix Bernier of the

Académie des beaux-arts The (; ) is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the . The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect. Background The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a me ...

1997, (prix spécial du jury) 1998 and pri
Eugène Carrière
of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

1998 *2001: ''The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century'', revised and augmented version of ''Les Voies de l'opéra français au XIXe siècle'', trad. Edward Schneider, Berkeley, University of California Press, 442 p. *2000: ''Georges Bizet : Naissance d'une identité créatrice'', Fayard, , 860 p., prix Bordin de l'Académie des beaux-arts 2001 *2007: ''Géographie de l'opéra au XXe siècle'', Fayard, 317 p. *2011: ''Opéra et fantastique'' (direction with

Timothée Picard Timothée Picard (born 1975) is a French academic and music critic. Biography Timothée Picard studied at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (1995–2001) and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1999–2001). He ho ...

Presses Universitaires de Rennes The Presses Universitaires de Rennes or PUR (''Rennes University Press'') is the largest French university press. Founded in 1984, PUR publishes around 200 books every year. It is located in Rennes in Brittany on the University of Rennes 2 – Up ...

, 428 p. . *2013: ''Francis Poulenc'',''Francis Poulenc'' Fayard
, 1104 p. grand prix des Muses- 2014 and prix Pelléas 2014 *2014: ''La Habanera de Carmen'', with Christine Rodriguez, Fayard, 224 p.

References

External links

Hervé Lacombe
on Éditions Fayard
Hervé Lacombe
on the site of the Académie française

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