Norbert Stéphane Jean-Marie Dufourcq (21 September 1904 – 19 December 1990) was a French organist, music educator, musicologist and musicographer.
Trained at the École des chartes and holder of a doctorate of literature, and an archivist/palaeographer, Norbert Dufourcq nonetheless devoted himself to music.
[2] In 1946, he participated in a collective work entitled La Musique des origines à nos jours.
He also established the magazine L’Orgue, where he often wrote expressing his ideas on the historicity of French classical organs.
Additionally, Dufourcq was also responsible for the restitution and publication in modern edition of classical French organ music such as livres d'orgue by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Gilles Jullien, Nicolas Lebègue, Louis-Antoine Dornel, Alexandre Boëly, Michel Corrette, as well as a manuscript by Mathieu Lanes; as well as a controversial rebuild of the organ of Auch Cathedral in which a large amount of historical 17th-century pipework was destroyed, and an electrification of the instrument's tracker action.