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Jean Huré (born 17 September 1877 in Gien, in the department of Loiret; d. 27 January 1930 in Paris) was a French composer and organist. Though educated at a monastery in Angers, as a musician, he was mostly self-taught. His only published organ work is the 1913 Communion pour une Messe de Minuit à Noël.
Huré studied anthropology, composition, improvisation and medieval music at the École St-Maurille Angers and served as organist at the cathedral in the city. In 1895 he went to Paris, where he, Charles-Marie Widor and Charles Koechlin were advised to study at the conservatory. Huré preferred to live an independent life.
From 1910 he taught at the École Normale Supérieure, where Yves Nat and Manuel Rosenthal were among his students. In 1911 he helped found the Paris Mozart Society. He worked as organist at the churches of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, Saint-Martin-des-Champs and Saint-Séverin between 1911–1914. From 1924 he was appointed successor to Lucien Grandjany at Sacré-Cœur and from 1926 as the successor to Eugene Gigout at Saint-Augustin. Between 1824 and 1826 he edited and published a monthly journal called L\\\\\\\'Orgue et les Organistes.
In addition to a number of organ works Huré composed a comic opera and a ballet, three symphonies and chamber works. In 2010 a CD with works by Huré was recorded. A four-movement sonata for violin and piano and a piano quintet with the Quatuor Louvigny and her violinist Philippe Koch, violin soloist and pianist Marie-Josephe Jew.
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