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From Mediabase Bru-Zane:
Jean HURÉ
1877 - 1930
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Date of birth: 09/17/1877
Date of death: 01/27/1930
Born in Gien in 1877, Jean Huré moved to Paris in 1895 after completing his humanities studies in Angers. Under the guidance of Widor and Koechlin, he integrated into Parisian life before embarking on a career as a pianist and organist in France and abroad. Received at the courts of the Countess of Flanders, Prince Medjid, and Carmen Sylva, Queen of Romania, with whom he maintained a rich correspondence, Huré established himself, outside of high society, as an important promoter of French organ literature. His teaching activities led to the inclusion of Fred Barlow, Yves Nat, and Manuel Rosenthal among his students. He is also the author of numerous educational and aesthetic works such as Dogmes musicals, Piano Technique or Organ Technique, Aesthetics of the Organ or St-Augustin Musician. Successively organist of Angers Cathedral and numerous Parisian parishes, he ended his career at the keyboards of the Sacré-Cœur and then St-Augustin, succeeding Eugène Gigout. Founder of L'Orgue et les Organistes in 1923, he was the author of a large body of articles in the musical press at the beginning of the century. He succumbed to pneumonia in Paris in 1930, leaving a symphonic, theatrical and chamber music oeuvre that bears witness to his broad diachronic musical culture, crowned by these words of Georges Migot: "Jean Huré does not make a revolution, knowing only too well all that this attitude entails in terms of destruction without reconstruction. He makes an evolution, he goes elsewhere, but without breaking with the past."