Salvayre, Gaston
(1847–1916)> COMPOSER
Salvayre, Gaston (24 June 1847, Toulouse; 16 May 1916, Saint-Ague), composer, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris under the direction of François Bazin , François Benoist , and Ambroise Thomas . He won the Prix de Rome in 1872, and, on his return to Paris from Italy, he was appointed chorusmaster for an operatic group with head-quarters in the Théâtre du Châtelet. His ballet entitled Les Amours du diable was mounted at this theatre on 18 November 1874, and, on 18 April 1877, his opera Le…