Jean-Michel Nectoux (born 20 November 1946) is a French musicologist, particularly noted as an expert on the life and music of Gabriel Fauré.
[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 Musée d'Orsay on its establishment in 1985, as chief curator of musical activities, concerts and interdisciplinary exhibitions, remaining there until 1997.
He was then appointed deputy music director of Radio France, where he organised a series of concerts in 2000 presenting the complete works of Debussy.
[3] 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 Proust, Mallarmé, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, the Ballets Russes and Stravinsky.