Florence Gétreau

Director emeritus of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Florence Gétreau (FR) is the author of numerous publications on French musical instruments, including their makers and cultural context, as well as issues of conservation and access, of musical iconography, and sociology of music. She was curator of musical instruments at the Paris Conservatory (Musée de la Musique) and curator for music at the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires. She served as director of the Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France (2004–13). She is the founder and director of the scientific annual journal Musique•Images•Instruments. She taught organology and musical iconography at the Paris Conservatory (1993–2016) and at the University François Rabelais in Tours (2004–13). She was the 2001 recipient of the Anthony Baines Memorial Prize and in 2002 of the Curt Sachs Award. She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2010. She is past president of the Société française de musicologie (2011–15) and Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters.