His repertoire encompassed everything from the medieval chansons of Guillaume de Machaut to the avant garde works of Igor Stravinsky.
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In pre-war Vienna and Paris, he frequented aristocratic salons and worked with Nadia Boulanger, with whom he made a pioneering set of recordings of madrigals by Monteverdi in 1937; after the war, the new early-music boom relied heavily on his light, unmannered, natural sound.
Hugues Panassié | Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano | Victor Hugues | Joseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière | Hugues Heney | Hugues Dufourt | Hugues de Payens | Hugues d'Amboise |