Gaston Salvayre

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Gaston Salvayre

Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre (born June 24, 1847 in Toulouse , † May 17, 1916 in Ramonville-Saint-Agne ) was a French composer.

Salvayre had his first music lessons in the choir of the Saint-Etienne cathedral in his native city. He studied first at the Conservatory of Toulouse with Paul Mériel , later at the Conservatoire de Paris with Ambroise Thomas . In 1872 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Calypso .

During the stay in Rome associated with the award, he composed a Stabat Mater , and in 1877 the premiere of his first opera Le Bravo at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris followed . Other church music, operas and ballets followed. In addition, Salvayre was active as a music critic, as a choir and orchestra conductor and respected as an organist and pianist.

Works

  • Les Amours du diable , ballet based on the opera by Albert Grisar , first performed in 1874
  • Le Bravo , Opera (Libretto: Émile Blavet ), WP 1877
  • Le Fandango , Ballet ( Henri Meilhac / Ludovic Halévy ), premiered in 1877
  • Symphonie biblique , 1882
  • Riccardo III , opera (libretto: Ludovic Halévy), premiered in Saint Petersburg in 1883
  • Egmont , Drame lyrique (libretto by Albert Wolff / Albert Millaud based on Goethe ), premier 1886
  • La Dame de Monsoreau , opera (libretto: Auguste Maquet ), WP 1888
  • La Fontaine des fées , ballet after Jean Bernac , premiered in 1899
  • L'Odalisque , Ballet, WP 1905
  • Solange , comic opera (Libretto: Adolphe Aderer ), WP 1909
  • Sainte Geneviève , Fresque musicale, WP 1919 in Monte Carlo

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personal data
SURNAME Salvayre, Gaston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salvayre, Gervais Bernard Gaston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1916
Place of death Ramonville-Saint-Agne