Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice (29 September 1910 – 18 August 1967) was a French composer.
It was premiered on 9 December 1958 by Jean-Marie Londeix with the Orchestre Symphonique Brestois directed by Maurice's husband, and fellow composer, Pierre Lantier.
Maurice and Pierre Lantier wrote a treatise on harmony entitled Complément du Traité d'Harmonie de Reber that became an important reference work in France and abroad.
It was intended to be used in conjunction with the 1862 treatise of Napoléon Henri Reber entitled Traité d'Harmonie.
The impact of Stravinsky, Debussy, and Ravel had created the need to update harmonic analysis.