Jean Hure (17 September 1877 in Gien, in Loiret department – 27 January 1930 in Paris) was a French composer and organist. Though educated at a monastery in Angers, as a musician, he was mostly self-taught. His only published organ work is the 1913 Communion pour une Messe de Minuit a Noel.
Hure studied anthropology, composition, improvisation and medieval music at the Ecole St-Maurille Angers and served as organist at the cathedral in the city. In 1895 he went to Paris, where he, Charles-Marie Widor and Charles Koechlin were advised to study at the conservatory. Hure preferred to live an independent life.
From 1910 he taught at the Ecole Normale Superieure, where Yves Nat and Manuel Rosenthal were among his students. In 1911 he helped found the Paris Mozart Society. He worked as organist at the churches of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, Saint-Martin-des-Champs and Saint-Severin between 1911–1914. From 1924 he was appointed successor to Lucien Grandjany at Sacre-Cœur and from 1926 as the successor to Eugene Gigout at Saint-Augustin. Between 1824 and 1826 he edited and published a monthly journal called L'Orgue et les Organistes.
In addition to a number of organ works Hure composed a comic opera and a ballet, three symphonies and chamber works. In 2010 a CD with works by Hure was recorded. A four-movement sonata for violin and piano and a piano quintet with the Quatuor Louvigny and her violinist Philippe Koch, violin soloist and pianist Marie-Josephe Jew.
Stage
Te Deum: extrait de Jeanne d'Arc, Poeme theatral (1895); words by A. Vincent
La Cathedrale (1910)
Au bois sacre, Ballet in 1 act (1921)
Le Rajah de Mysore, Operetta
Orchestral
Symphony No. 1 (1896)
Symphony No. 2 (1897)
Symphony No. 3 (1903)
Poemes enfantins for chamber orchestra (1906)
Prelude symphonique for orchestra
Concertante
Air for violin or cello and orchestra (1902)
Nocturne for piano and orchestra (1903)
Andante for alto saxophone, string orchestra, harp, timpani and organ (1915)
Concertstuck for saxophone and orchestra
Concerto for cello and orchestra (1929)
Concerto for violin and orchestra
Chamber music
Suite sur des Chants bretons for violin, cello and piano or harp (1898)
Sonata in C minor for violin and piano (1900–1901)
Petite chanson for cello (or viola) and piano (1901)
Air in F major for cello and piano or organ (1901)
Sonata No. 1 in F♯ minor for cello and piano (1903)
Sonata for violin and piano (circa 1905)
Sonata No. 2 in F major for cello and piano (1906)
Sonatine in G major for violin and piano (1907)
Piano Quintet (1907–1908)
Sonata No. 3 in F♯ major for cello and piano (1909)
String Quartet No. 1 in C major (1913–1917)
Prelude for violin (or cello) and organ
Serenade en trio for violin, cello and piano (1920)
Sonata for violin and piano (1920)
String Quartet No. 2 (1921)
Sonata No. 4 for cello and piano (1924)
Organ
Interlude-elevation for organ or harmonium (1911)
Communion pour une Messe de Minuit a Noel (Communion on a Noel: Offertory for Midnight Mass) (1913)
Prelude pour une messe Pontificale (1915)
Piano
Poemes Enfantin (1906)
Sonata No. 1 in F minor for piano (or harp) (1907)
Sonata No. 2 (1916)
Vocal
Elegie for voice, cello and piano (1905); words by Rene de Bredenbec
Te Deum for soprano, chorus and organ (1907)
Sept chantons de Bretagne for voice and piano (1910)
Ave Maria for 2 female voices (1924)
L'ame en peine for 4 voices (1925)
4 Lettres de femmes for voice and piano (1928)
4 Poemes for voice and piano (1929); words by Arnould Gremilly
Trois chansons monodiques for solo voice (1930); words by Andre Spire
Belle, j'entends bien tourner la meule du moulin for voice and chamber orchestra
Literary
Chansons et danses bretonnes precedees d'une etude sur la monodie populaire (Angers, 1902)
Dogmes musicaux (Le Monde Musical, Paris, 1909)
Technique du piano (Paris, 1909)
Introduction a la technique du piano (Paris, 1910)
Defense et illustration de la musique francaise (Angers, 1915)
La technique de l’orgue (Paris, 1918)
L’Esthetique de l’orgue (Senart, Paris, 1923)
Saint Augustin musicien (Paris, 1924)
