Maurice Fleuret

Maurice Fleuret (; 22 June 1932 – 22 March 1990) was a French composer, music journalist, radio producer, arts administrator, and festival organizer. Working at the Ministry of Culture in the 1980s, he is best remembered as one of the initiators of the Fête de la Musique. Biography Born in La Talaudière in the department of Loire, Maurice Fleuret received his secondary education at the École normale d’instituteurs in Montbrison. In 1952 he moved to Paris and began studying music in the classes of Norbert Dufourcq, Olivier Messiaen, and Roland Manuel at the Conservatoire de Paris, graduating in 1956. In 1955, he became a lecturer of the Jeunesses musicales de France, a position he held until 1965. From 1974, he became artistic adviser to this same organization. In the meantime, he had undertaken other activities as well. In 1958 he edited the review Musique de tous les temps, from 1960 to 1964 he was director of the music division of the Centre National de Diffusion Culturelle, and in 1962 he began a career as a music critic, first for France observateur and then from 1964 for its successor, the Nouvel Observateur. In 1962 he also became a radio producer, first at ORTF and then at R