Maurice Gourgues

Maurice Gourgues Maurice , born in the Gers in 1945, is type-setter, critical and French writer. Partially-sighted person of birth, it becomes definitively blind at the ten years age. Initially with Bordeaux at the Institute of the Young Blind men, he studies the piano and the harmony. He obtains a first price of trumpet to the academy of this city.

In Paris then, it has as Masters Claude Balif, Marcel Beaufils, Jean Langlais. Prize winner of the Higher National Academy of Music of Paris, it obtains a first price of musical analysis and a first price of esthetics of the music. He studies the composition with max Deutsch, disciple of Schönberg. He takes part in the seminar of ethno-musicology of the School of the High Studies. It is formed with the electroacoustic musics with the G.R.M. under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. Incorporated music, it continues a career of teacher and type-setter. Its production explores the field of the musics between jazz and modern music. In the Seventies, it is one of the first, in France, to be interested thoroughly in the prolongation of the instrumental sound on line by electronic processes within the framework of the improvisation.

Among its parts

From Babel to Eiffel , continuation for violin, trumpet and electroacoustic device
Blue Baroque
Provisional Landscapes, I-6 .

; Some places where one could hear his music: Paris, Museum of Modern art, Auditorium of the Markets, New Morning, House of the Radio like to the festival of Geneva, festival of Montpellier Radio-France, festival of St-Germain-in-Bush hammer, etc

Articles, interviews and tests were published in Jazz Magazine, Jazz Critics Tokyo, Panorama of the Music , etc

It is also interested in the song as a composer-songwriter like with the romantic writing.

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