Gabriel Grovlez

Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic.

[1] Grovlez attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Louis Diémer, André Gedalge, Descombes, Kaiser and Lavignac.

At the Théâtre des Arts, he gave the premieres of Albert Roussel's Le Festin de l'araignée and Maurice Ravel's Ma mère l'oye, and also revived many operas, particularly from the baroque era, including works by Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau and Gluck.

[1] He had an international career as a guest conductor,[4] and worked at opera houses in Monte Carlo, Cairo, Lisbon, New York and Chicago.

[1] During his tenure at the Opéra de Paris, Grovlez edited collections of arias from early French opera, which were influential in England.