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French oboist, composer, and conductorTemplate:SHORTDESC:French oboist, composer, and conductor

Maurice Bourgue (born 6 November 1939) is a French oboist, composer, and conductor.

Biography

Maurice Bourgue studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the oboe class of Étienne Baudo^[1] and chamber music of Fernand Oubradous.

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), Prague Spring International Music Festival (1968), Budapest (1970).

Bourgue was called in 1967 by Charles Munch at the Orchestre de Paris, where he remained solo oboe until 1979.

In parallel, he performed as a soloist, under the direction of prestigious conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, John Eliot Gardiner, and undertook conducting activities in France and abroad.

Since 1972, he has devoted an important pa