Hugues Dufourt

Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher, born in Lyon in 1943. He studied piano and composition in Geneva and took the agrégation in philosophy in 1967, then worked for decades as a researcher at the CNRS. He is associated with spectral music, and several of his works take their starting point from paintings, from Tiepolo to Matisse. Dufourt's teachers in Geneva were Louis Hiltbrand and Jacques Guyonnet. He took part in Ensemble L'Itinéraire and in 1977 co-founded the Collectif de Recherche Instrumentale et de Synthèse Sonore (CRISS) with Alain Bancquart and Tristan Murail.