Paule Maurice

Charlotte Marie Jeanne Paule Maurice ( born September 29, 1910 in Paris, † August 18, 1967 ibid ) was a French composer.

Maurice studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jean and Noël Gallon ( Counterpoint, Fugue and harmony ) and Henri Busser (composition). In 1939 she was awarded first prize in composition. From 1933 to 1947 she was an assistant of Jean Gallon. Since 1965 she was a professor of harmony analysis at the Ecole Normale de Musique.

Maurice's most famous work is the Tableaux de Provence pour saxophone et orchester, which she dedicated saxophonist Marcel Mule. It was premiered in 1958 by Jean -Marie Londeix and the Orchestre Symphonique Brestois under the leadership of her husband Pierre Lantier. In addition, she composed, inter alia, a piano concerto, a suite for flute quartet and ballet Cosmorama. Together with her husband she published Complement du Traite d'Harmonie de Reber, a supplement of the standard works of Napoléon -Henri Reber for harmony in the year 1862.