Dugazon, Gustave
(1782–1826)
Dugazon, Gustave (1782, Paris; 1826, Paris) studied harmony under Henri-Montan Berton at the Conservatoire, but he was obliged to interrupt his studies on several occasions, although he was able finally to return to study composition under François-Joseph Gossec (see eighteenth-century volume for Berton and Gossec). After winning second prize at the Institut in 1806, he gave piano lessons to support himself, and he started to publish the large corpus of airs, nocturnes, preludes, and tocattas…