Norbert Dufourcq , born in 1904 with Saint-Jean-of-Sling (Loiret) and died with Paris the December 19th 1990 was a Organiste and musicographe French.

Formed to the School of the charters and arts doctor, Archivist paleographer, it was devoted nevertheless to the music.

Organist amateur, it was however titular church Saint-Merry in Paris. Professor and author of many articles and works on the music in general, the Organ and the Harpsichord in particular, he was also the founder of the review Recherches on the traditional French music , continued by Marcelle Benoît.

He signed a remarkable collective work entitled " Music of the origins to our jours" for the drafting of which it could stick the talent of truths musicologists like (inter alia) Solange Corbin de Mangoux.

Very early impassioned organ, he was cofounder with Bérenger de Miramon Fitz-James of the Association of the Friends of the organ ; he created also the review " Orgue" in which it particularly expressed its ideas on the historicity of the French traditional organ.

Scholar, man of library more than technician, it was in this field of the organology in which it ventured very early and well imprudently, very discussed in the Sixties, for its ideas on the restoration of the old organ; certain organ builders and even more organists reflect indeed with naked the limit of its knowledge on the matter and the autoproclamé character of its authority.