Victor Dourlen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Victor Dourlen

Composer and pedagog

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1780

Place of Birth: Dunkirk, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1864

Profession: composer, music pedagogue

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen (born 3 November 1780 in Dunkerque – died 8 January 1864 in Paris) was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century.
He is primarily known as a theorist being his treatises on harmony, based on the methods of Charles Simon Catel, widely used as reference, especially his Traité d’harmonie (1838), and his Traité d’accompagnement pratique (1834), as well as his Méthode élémentaire pour le piano-forte (1820).