Marie-Joseph Antoine Jean-Victor Hocquard (17 January 1910 – 21 December 1995) was a French musicologist, and a specialist of Mozart.
After the war, he was a professor of philosophy at the Grenoble, Tournon, Tanger and Altkirch high schools.
He taught philosophy, but devoted most of his energy to deepening the knowledge of the Viennese musician.
[3] These authors having dealt with other studies in Beethoven or Schubert for example, Jean-Victor Hocquard in about ten books, has invested himself entirely in Mozart.
From his thesis, he maintained throughout his various studies, the idea that Mozart's specificity resides in a thought of "intrinsically musical character",[3] going even went so far as to consider Mozart as an initiatory guide who, through aesthetic ideals, "would make his music a work of "truth".