Jacques Bondon

Jacques Bondon (full name Jacques Laurent Jules Désiré Bondon; 6 December 1927 – 2 April 2008) was a French composer.

He arrived in Paris aged nineteen to study music.

He began studying the violin, learned harmony and counterpoint with Georges Dandelot and Charles Koechlin and composition with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier at the Conservatoire de Paris.

In 1974, he was appointed member of the National Commission for Popular Music at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.

Since 1981, he has been Director of the Conservatoire municipal de musique of the 20th arrondissement of Paris.