André Hodeir

André Hodeir (22 January 1921 – 1 November 2011) was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist.

He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was taught by Olivier Messiaen and won first prizes in fugue, harmony, and music history.

In 1954 he was a founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, which included Bobby Jaspar, Pierre Michelot and Nat Peck.

In addition to two books of Essais (1954 and 1956), he wrote film scores, including Le Palais Idéal by Ado Kyrou for the film Chutes de pierres, danger de mort by Michel Fano, and Brigitte Bardot's Une Parisienne.

He founded an orchestra during the 1960s and composed a work based on the Anna Livia Plurabelle story from the novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.