Death of the oboist Maurice Bourgue
The French oboist Maurice Bourgue, who also taught at the Geneva Conservatory, has died at the age of 83 in his home town of Avignon.
Bourgue studied oboe with Etienne Baudo and chamber music with Fernand Oubradous at the Conservatoire National de Musique Paris. He won first prize for oboe at international competitions in Paris in 1958 and first prize for chamber music in 1959. He won further competitions in Geneva in 1963, Birmingham in 1965, Munich in 1967, Prague in 1968 and Budapest in 1970.
Maurice Bourgue was appointed to the Orchestre de Paris by Karl Münch in 1967, where he was principal oboist until 1979. In 1972 he founded an octet which bears his name. The octet consists of musicians from the Orchestre de Paris. As musical director of the Sandor Végh International Chamber Music Academy, he devoted himself to teaching at the music academies in Paris and Geneva and gave master classes in Budapest, London, Lausanne, Moscow, Jerusalem, Oslo and Kyoto.
