Jean Huré was a french

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 composer

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 and organist

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. Though educated at a monastery in Angers, as a musician, he was mostly self-taught. His only published organ work is the 1913 Communion pour une Messe de Minuit à Noël.

Life

Huré studied anthropology

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, composition

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, improvisation

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 and medieval music

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 at the École St-Maurille Angers and served as organist at the cathedral in the city. In 1895 he went to Paris, where he, Charles-Marie Widor

Charles-Marie Widor

Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...

 and Charles Koechlin

Charles Koechlin

Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...

 were advised to study at the conservatory. Huré preferred to live an independent life.

From 1910 he taught at the École Normale Supérieure

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, where Yves Nat

Yves Nat

Yves Nat was a French pianist and composer.-Biography:Yves Nat was born in Béziers and showed an early aptitude for both piano and composition. By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise each Sunday at the organ of Béziers' cathedral during mass...

 and Manuel Rosenthal

Manuel Rosenthal

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 were among his students. In 1911 he helped found the Paris Mozart Society. He worked as organist at the churches of Saint-Martin-des-Champs and St. Severin between 1911-1914. From 1924 he was appointed successor to Lucien Grandjany at Sacre Coeur and from 1926 as the successor to Eugene Gigout

Eugène Gigout

Eugène Gigout was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ.-Biography:Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris....

 at St. Augustine. Between 1824 and 1826 he edited and published a monthly journal called L'Orgue et les Organistes.

In addition to a number of organ works Huré composed a comic opera and a ballet, three symphonies and chamber works. In 2010 a CD with works by Hurés was recorded. A four-movement sonata for violin and piano and a piano quintet with the Quatuor Louvigny and her violinist Philippe Koch, violin soloist and pianist Marie-Josephe Jew.

Works

Stage

• Te Deum: extrait de Jeanne d'Arc, Poème théâtral (1895); words by A. Vincent
• La Cathédrale (1910)
• Au bois sacré, Ballet in 1 act (1921)
• Le Rajah de Mysore, Operetta

Orchestral

• Symphony No. 1 (1896)
• Symphony No. 2 (1897)
• Symphony No. 3 (1903)
• Poèmes enfantins for chamber orchestra (1906)
• Prélude symphonique for orchestra

Concertante

• Air for violin or cello and orchestra (1902)
• Nocturne for piano and orchestra (1903)
• Andante for alto saxophone, string orchestra, harp, timpani and organ (1915)
• Concertstück for saxophone and orchestra
• Concerto for cello and orchestra (1929)
• Concerto for violin and orchestra

Chamber music

• Suite sur des Chants bretons for violin, cello and piano or harp (1898)
• Sonata in C minor for violin and piano (1900–1901)
• Petite chanson for cello (or viola) and piano (1901)
• Air in F major for cello and piano or organ (1901)
• Sonata No. 1 in F minor for cello and piano (1903)
• Sonata for violin and piano (circa 1905)
• Sonata No. 2 in F major for cello and piano (1906)
• Sonatine in G major for violin and piano (1907)
• Piano Quintet (1907–1908)
• Sonata No. 3 in F major for cello and piano (1909)
• String Quartet No. 1 in C major (1913–1917)
• Prélude for violin (or cello) and organ
• Sérénade en trio for violin, cello and piano (1920)
• Sonata for violin and piano (1920)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1921)
• Sonata No. 4 for cello and piano (1924)

Organ

• Interlude-élévation for organ or harmonium (1911)
• Communion pour une Messe de Minuit à Noël (Communion on a Noel: Offertory for Midnight Mass) (1913)
• Prélude pour une messe Pontificale (1915)

Piano

• Poèmes Enfantin (1906)
• Sonata No. 1 in F minor for piano (or harp) (1907)
• Sonata No. 2 (1916)

Vocal

• Élégie for voice, cello and piano (1905); words by René de Brédenbec
• Te Deum for soprano, chorus and organ (1907)
• Sept chantons de Bretagne for voice and piano (1910)
• Ave Maria for 2 female voices (1924)
• L'âme en peine for 4 voices (1925)
• 4 Lettres de femmes for voice and piano (1928)
• 4 Poèmes for voice and piano (1929); words by Arnould Grémilly
• Trois chansons monodiques for solo voice (1930); words by André Spire
  André Spire
  André Spire was a French poet, writer, and Zionist activist.-Biography:Born in 1868 in Nancy to a Jewish family of the middle bourgeoisie, long established in the Lorraine, Spire studied literature, then law...
  
  
• Belle, j'entends bien tourner la meule du moulin for voice and chamber orchestra

Literary

• Chansons et danses bretonnes précédées d'une étude sur la monodie populaire (Angers, 1902)
• Dogmes musicaux (Le Monde Musical, Paris, 1909)
• Technique du piano (Paris, 1909)
• Introduction à la technique du piano (Paris, 1910)
• Défense et illustration de la musique française (Angers, 1915)
• La technique de l’orgue (Paris, 1918)
• L’Esthétique de l’orgue (Senart, Paris, 1923)
• Saint Augustin musicien (Paris, 1924)

External links

• Works by Jean Huré at the International Music Score Library Project
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