Victor Dourlen

Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen (born 3 November 1780 in Dunkerque – died 8 January 1864 in Paris) was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is primarily known as a theorist being his treatises on harmony, based on the methods of Charles Simon Catel, widely used as reference, especially his Traité d’harmonie (1838), and his Traité d’accompagnement pratique (1834), as well as his Méthode élémentaire pour le piano-forte (1820).