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 in a Castle by Richard Pottier 1942: Malaria by Jean Gourguet 1943: La Main de l'homme by Jean Tedesco and François Ardoin (short film) 1945: Dawn Devils by Yves Allégret 1945: Enquête du 58 by Jean Tedesco (short film) 1946: A Lover's Return (Un revenant) by Christian-Jaque (cast member) 1950: Arrière-saison by Dimitri Kirsanoff 1951: Les Hommes de l'acier by Jean Tedesco (short film) 1955: L'Art d'être heureux by (documentary) 1956: Une tâche difficile by Jean Leduc (short film)

Works 1923: Septet (mezzo-Soprano, flute, string quartet and piano), Opus 3