Biography:

Daniel Bourgue , born January 12 , 1937in Avignon ( Vaucluse ) and died on March 14 , 2023in Saint-Drézéry ( Hérault ), is a French horn player .

Daniel Bourgue was born onJanuary 12, 1937in Avignon ¹ .

He began music at the Conservatory of his hometown , studying the cello and the horn , then entered the Paris Conservatory , where he obtained a 1st ^prize  for horn in Jean Devémy’s class in 1959 ¹ .

As a chamber musician, he performed in concert for the Jeunesses Musicales de France with the Musica Wind Quintet and the pianist Jean-Claude Ambrosini, between 1961 and 1967, and was a member of the Paris Octet between 1965 and 1982 ¹ .

As an orchestral musician, Daniel Bourgue is principal horn at the Cannes Orchestra (1958), at the Republican Guard , at the Pasdeloup concerts (1969), at the Ensemble intercontemporain (since its foundation) and at the Ensemble orchestral de Paris (since its foundation). Between 1964 and 1989, he was principal horn of the orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris ¹ .

As a performer, he is the creator of several works, Piece for solo horn by Olivier Messiaen (which later became the Interstellar Call in Des canyons auxétoiles ) in Royan in 1971, Divertimento by Jean Françaix , Anaktoria by Iannis Xenakis (Avignon, 1965), and the Horn Concerto by Georges Delerue , of which he is the dedicatee, notably ¹ .

As a teacher, he is a professor of horn and chamber music at the Champigny Conservatory , at the academies of Albi , Orvieto , Wallonia and at the University of Los Angeles ¹ .

Daniel Bourgue is also founding president of the National Association of French horn players and director of La Revue du corniste ¹ .

He also had a daughter, Caroline Bourgue, a music teacher in La Rochelle.

Daniel Bourgue died onMarch 14, 2023in Saint-Drézéry, in Hérault ^2 , 3 .

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