Geneviève Thibault de Chambure

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.

After her marriage in 1931 she stopped musical and scholarly activities, gave birth to six children, and alternated her life between Vietnam and France.

After the death of her husband Hubert Pelletier de Chambure (1903-1953), she returned permanently to Paris, where in June 1953 she resumed her scholarly activities and organization of concerts.

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.

When the American musicologist Barry S. Brook started conceiving in 1969 the international project for research of visual sources for music and the systematic cataloguing of music iconography represented in artworks, Mme de Chambure was his key advisor and when the project was officially founded in August 1971 in St. Gall, she became with him and Harald Heckmann co-president of the Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM).