Florence Gétreau is Director emeritus of research at the CNRS (Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique-Institut de recherche en Musicologie, Paris. She is the author or editor of 43 volumes and about 300 contributions to journals and monographs. Her work focuses on organology (evolution of musical instruments, instrument making, techniques and ethics of restoration), on the history of instrument collections, on the social history of music and on musical iconography (https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr). She was for some twenty years curator of musical instruments at the Paris Conservatory (Musée instrumental-later Musée de la Musique) and was also a curator for music (sound archives and instruments field research) at the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (1994-2003).

She served as Director of the Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France (2004-2013. CNRS, BnF, Ministère de la Culture). She is the editor of Musique • Images • Instruments (>1995, CNRS Editions, 19 vol. published). She taught organology and musical iconography at the Paris Conservatory (1993-2016) and at the University François Rabelais in Tours (2004-2013). She was the 2001 recipient of the Anthony Baines memorial Prize, and in 2002 of the Curt Sachs Award. Member of the Academia Europaea (2010), Past President of the Société française de musicologie (2011-2015), she was member of the Directorium of the International Musicological Society from 2012 to 2022. She is Commander of the order of the Arts and Letters and Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.

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