Hervé Lacombe
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. 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".