Norbert Dufourcq
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| Born | 21 September 1904 Saint-Jean-de-Braye, France |
| Died | 19 September 1990 (aged 85) Paris |
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| Awards | Prix Broquette-Gonin |
Norbert Dufourcq (21 September 1904 – 19 December 1990) was a French organist, music educator, musicologist and musicographer.
Trained at the École des chartes and holder of a doctorate es literature, and an archivist/palaeographer, Norbert Dufourcq nonetheless devoted himelf to music. An amateur organist (pupil of André Marchal), he is the holder of the organ of the Saint-Merri church in Paris from 1923 to his death. The Clicquot/Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ was restored by the Gonzalez company in a neo-classical esthetic under the direction of its owner between 1946 and 1947. Many organ stops were added to the instrument.
A professor of music history at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1941 to 1975 and musicology at the École normale de musique de Paris between 1958 and 1963, he is also the author of numerous articles and books on music in general, the organ and harpsichord in particular; Moreover, he founded the journal Recherches sur la musique française classique, continued by Marcelle Benoît.
In 1946, he participated to a collective work entitled La Musique des origines à nos jours for the writing of which he surrounded himself with musicologists such as Solange Corbin de Mangoux.
A very early organ enthusiast, he was co-founder with Bérenger de Miramon Fitz-James of the Association des Amis de l’orgue in 1926–27. He also established the magazine L’Orgue in which he expressed his ideas on the historicity of French classical organs.
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