Michel Huglo (Lille 14 December 1921 – 13 May 2012[1]) was a French musicologist specializing in the study of Gregorian chant and early Medieval polyphony.
Michel Victor René Marie Joseph Huglo[1] was a monk of Solesmes Abbey from 1941 to 1960 where he studied philosophy and theology.
[2] He worked on the series of early medieval chant manuscript facsimiles, Paléograpie musicale from 1949 to 1960, after which he moved to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) where he was eventually director of research (directeur de recherche).
He was the founder and director of the department of musicology of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes [fr] from 1973 to his retirement in 1986.
He worked across many areas of plainsong research, including modal organization in tonaries and creating the first catalog of processionals.