Geneviève, comtesse Hubert de Chambure Thibault was a French musicologist associated with the revival of interest in early music
Education
She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1920 with a thesis on John Dowland and in 1925 co-founded the Société de musique d"autrefois, designed to promote the publication de musical texts (from 1954) and a magazine les Annales musicologiques (from 1955).
Career
From 1961 to 1973, she was curator of the historical instrumentals of the Conservatoire de Paris - in addition to having amassed her own private collection. In 1967 she founded the Laboratoire d"organologie et d"iconographie musicale at the National Center for Scientific Research, which was the first national center for the research of music iconography, later becoming the French national center of the Répertoire International d"Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM).