- He was a French oboist, composer and conductor.
- He performed as a soloist, under the direction of prestigious conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, John Eliot Gardiner, and undertook conducting activities in France and abroad.
- Bourgue was called in 1967 by Charles Munch at the Orchestre de Paris, where he remained solo oboe until 1979.
- He won first prizes in the following international competitions: Geneva (1963), Birmingham (1965), Munich (1967), Prague Spring International Music Festival (1968), Budapest (1970).
- He won a First Prize for oboe in 1958 and a First Prize for chamber music in 1959.
- As music director of the Sándor-Végh-Institute for Chamber Music, he had a continuous pedagogical activity, both in the conservatories of Paris and Geneva, as well as during masterclasses he animated in Budapest, London, Lausanne, Moscow, Oslo, Jerusalem, and Kyoto.
- From 1972, he devoted an important part of his activities to chamber music within the Octuor à vent, which bears his name and of which he was the founder, composed of musicians of the Orchestre de Paris. He would record several records with this band.
- Bourgue played in world premiered of works by Berio and Dutilleux (Les Citations in 1991).
- Maurice Bourgue left in the fifties France for Algeria where, during the war, he played in the Algiers radio orchestra.
- He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he took oboe classes led by Étienne Baudo and chamber music classes from Fernand Oubradous.
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