Paul Dupin is a French composer born on August 14, 1865 in Roubaix and died in Paris on March 6, 1949. He is the son of a musician from the city of Ypres (Belgium) but he did not want to continue the study of harmony begun with Auguste Durand. He wrote alone, instinctively, works that are no less interesting.
After studying at the School of Arts and Crafts in Belgium, he joined a railway company.
While continuing to teach himself composition, he attracted the attention, at the age of 22, of some critics on his musical writings. This is how Romain Rolland, in particular, devoted a laudatory article to him in the review of the Société Internationale de Musique (SIM) on December 15, 1908. Durand published it and he also found in Charles Koechlin a defender of his work, even writing him a moving farewell in the Guide du Concert on March 25, 1949.