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Hervé Lacombe

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Hervé Lacombe is a French musicologist, a professor at the University Rennes 2 since 2002 and a specialist of music of France. He is the author of several works on the opera and two biographies, one of Georges Bizet and the other of Francis Poulenc.

Biography

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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.

He received a scholarship from the École française de Rome and a delegation to the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. 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

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  • 1997: Les Voies de l'opéra français au XIXe siècle, Fayard, 392 p., prix Bernier of the Académie des beaux-arts 1997, prix des Muses [fr] (prix spécial du jury) 1998 and prix Eugène Carrière of the Académie française 1998
  • 2001: The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century,[1] 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, ISBN 978-2-213-60794-8, 860 p., prix Bordin de l'Académie des beaux-arts 2001
  • 2007: Géographie de l'opéra au XXe siècle,[2] Fayard, 317 p.
  • 2011: Opéra et fantastique (direction with Timothée Picard), Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 428 p. ISBN 978-2-7535-1324-2.
  • 2013: Francis Poulenc,[3] grand prix des Muses-Fondation Singer-Polignac [fr] 2014 and prix Pelléas 2014
  • 2014: La Habanera de Carmen, with Christine Rodriguez, Fayard, 224 p.

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