ALLIER, GABRIEL

Gabriel-Eugène-Hippolyte Allier was a composer who gained international fame by the quality as well as the quantity of his works. Born in Lyons (Lyon), France, in 1863, he studied piano with Emile Decombes at the Paris Conservatory for a short time when he was fifteen but returned to Lyons to receive his first prize in piano at the local conservatory. In 1881 he went back to Paris to take advanced piano lessons with Georges Mathias and harmony with Emile PessardEmile Pessard...