The composer André Bon passed away on Sunday, September 20, at the age of 80 after a long illness. Born in Lille on August 17, 1946, Bon began his musical training in Nancy, where he prepared for the Certificate of Musical Education Aptitude. He later attended the CNSMD de Paris, studying composition with Olivier Messiaen and analysis with Jean-Pierre Guézec. He also completed an internship at the GRM studios with Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer in the development of musique concrète, a genre that uses recorded sounds as raw material for composition. From 1974 to 1976, he was a fellow at the Villa Médicis, a prestigious French arts residency in Rome. André Bon's career as a composer was marked by artist residencies, including a notable stay at the Villa Kujoyama in Japan in 1999, and by several awards, such as the Lili Boulanger prize and distinctions from SACEM, a French organization that manages the rights of composers and musicians, and the Académie des beaux-arts, a French institution that honors artists and scholars. His catalog includes around forty works, primarily orchestral compositions where he focused on textures and forms, while still maintaining a melodic dimension. Works such as Convergence, Ode, Ode II, Émergence, and Fresques—created for Radio France in the 2000s—demonstrate his approach. Perhaps the most natural setting for Bon's dual focus on texture and melody was the theater, where voice, gesture, space, and color naturally come together. He wrote extensively for the stage, beginning with his first opera Adam et ve in 1971. Later works include Le Rapt de Perséphone (1987), based on a libretto by Dominique Fernandez and awarded the SACD's New Talents prize, and La Jeune fille au livre, commissioned by Arte and broadcast on its television channel in 1993. This opera, described as "for the screen," was filmed by director Jean-Louis Comelli and is considered a pioneering work in a new genre. It was praised at its creation by the Samuel Rousseau prize from the Académie des beaux-arts and the Wolf Ebermann prize from the International Institute of Theater in Munich. The filmed opera was revived in February 2023 with great success at the theater Les Rendez-vous d'ailleurs. André Bon also dedicated time to teaching, lecturing on 20th-century musicology at the University of Aix-en-Provence and teaching composition at the Argenteuil Conservatory. Since 2000, he has been teaching at the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau. A fine musician, a lover of literature, and a discreet individual, Bon's career spanned half a century, marked by a curiosity that never confined him to any single style or school. His independence and singular freedom, though sometimes isolating, did not prevent him from receiving recognition and achieving a lasting impact through his creative work.