Maurice Franck (22 April 1897 – 21 March 1983) was a French conductor, composer and music educator.
Among his cousins were Geneviève Zadoc-Kahn, stage manager of the Musigrains [fr] concerts, and Suzanne Braun, ophthalmologist and wife of politician Louis Vallon.
[1] Franck studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau and Paul Vidal.
At the same time, he taught at Studios Pleyel, Lycée la Fontaine and at the Beethoven Institute founded by Hélène Amiot, alongside other pedagogues such as Noël Gallon, Maurice Hewitt,[2] Georges Jouatte, André-Lévy, René Maillard, René Leroy, Auguste Le Guennant and René Saorgin.
[3] He was quickly released, thanks to the action of his second wife, Marcelle Horvilleur, also a musician (whom he had recently married on 6 September 1941 in Paris), and with the help of certain artistic circles.