He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1952 in a music writing class.
He was then a student of Georges Hugon in harmony and Noël Gallon and Jean Rivier in fugue and counterpoint, then had Darius Milhaud and André Jolivet as his teachers.
Tisné composed more than three hundred works ranging from pieces for solo instrument to the symphony orchestra.
New technologies, while he knew how to appreciate them, do not fit into his thought pattern as a deliberate substitute for inspiration or as an alternative to a musical discourse that he likes to be imbued with spirituality.
Tisné's work is resolutely expressive and does not need to be followed, at the time of its interpretation, by explanatory comments.