[1][2] Jouve studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and took a keen interest in baroque music in the 1950s,[3] and notably recorded Charpentier's Messe de minuit with the Ensemble vocal de Paris, which won a Grand Prix du disque in 1954.
[4] He conducted in Paris and Stuttgart including the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.
[1] Jouve was the chorus director for the 1952 Aix-en Provence festival production of Iphigénie en Tauride, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, later recorded for Vox Records.
[5] He joined the ORTF in 1969, becoming head of the musical research group (GRM) which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1958.
[4] After leaving Radio France he was part of a working group of the European Broadcasting Union.