Paule Maurice

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Paule Maurice (born 1910, died 1967, Paris) was a French composer. She is perhaps best known for her 1959 composition for saxophone and orchestra, Tableaux de Provence (Pictures of Provence) as well as her Flute quartet Suite pour quatuor de Flûtes. Paule Maurice studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. Her tutors included Jean Gallon (Harmony), Noël Gallon (Counterpoint and Fugue) and Henri Büsser (Composition). By the age of twenty-three, she was Jean Gallon's teaching assistant. She tutored many students, several of whom became professors to the school. With Pierre Lantier, her husband, she wrote a treatise on harmony which became an important reference work in numerous schools in France and abroad.