Maurice Bourgue (born 6 November 1939) is a French

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, and conductor.

Biography

Maurice Bourgue studied at the

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in the

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class of Étienne Baudo and

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. He won a First Prize for oboe in 1958 and a First Prize for chamber music in 1959. He then won first prizes in the following international competitions: Geneva (1963), Birmingham (1965), Munich (1967),

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(1968), Budapest (1970). Bourgue was called in 1967 by Charles Munch at the

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, where he remained solo oboe until 1979. In parallel, he performed as a soloist, under the direction of prestigious conductors such as

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, and undertook

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activities in France and abroad. Since 1972, he has devoted an important part of his activities to chamber music within the Octuor à vent, which bears his name and of which he is the founder, composed of musicians of the Orchestre de Paris. He would record several records with this band. As

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of the Sándor-Végh-Institute for Chamber Music, he has a continuous pedagogical activity, both in the conservatories of Paris and Geneva, as well as during

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es he animates in Budapest, London, Lausanne, Moscow, Oslo, Jerusalem, and Kyoto. The creator of works by Berio and

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(''Les Citations'', (where his name is misspelled as "Ourgue") 1991), Bourgue has made a large number of records, many of which have won awards.

References

External links

''La clef des sons''
interview with Maurice Bourgue *
Maurice Bourgue
on La Belle saison * , Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D major, Maurice Bourgue (oboe), (piano) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bourgue, Maurice French classical oboists Male oboists French male conductors (music) French music educators Conservatoire de Paris alumni Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music Musicians from Avignon 1939 births Living people 21st-century French conductors (music) 21st-century French male musicians