Arthur Hoérée

Arthur Hoérée (16 April 1897 in Brussels – 2 June 1986 in Paris) was a Belgian musicologist, critic, conductor and composer. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels from 1908 to 1912, then at the Conservatoire de Paris. He was a lecturer and a professor at the École normale de musique, École de la radio à Montrouge and the Sorbonne University. He wrote music reviews in many French periodicals including the prestigious and famous La Revue Musicale of Henry Prunières. A specialist in French music, Hoérée has transcribed and produced several works by François Couperin, and he has published two monographs on Albert Roussel (Paris, 1938, 1969). His activities as a composer extend to film and stage music. He often collaborated with Arthur Honegger. He had the composer and organist André Jorrand as student in his course of instrumentation. Film music * 1934: Rapt, by Dimitri Kirsanoff * 1937: Passeurs d’hommes by René Jayet * 1938: Liberty by Jean Kemm * 1938: L’Ange que j’ai vendu by Michel Bernheim * 1939: L’Or dans la montagne by Max Haufler * 1939: Musicians of the Sky (Les Musiciens du ciel) by Georges Lacombe * 1942: À la belle frégate by Albert Valentin * 1942: Eight Men i