Gaston Salvayre

Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre (24 June 1847 – 17 May 1916) was a French composer and music critic who won the Prix de Rome for composition in 1872.

[2] He received a first prize in organ and competed five times unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome in composition before winning the Premier Grand Prix in 1872 with the dramatic scene Calypso.

In Rome he composed several pieces, which were presented in Paris: Ouverture symphonique and ballet music for Albert Grisar's opera Les Amours du diable in 1874, and La Résurrection (a "biblical symphony", in 1876; renamed La Vallée de Josaphat in 1882).

[3] He became the chorus master of the Opéra Populaire at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1874.

[3] His grand opera La Dame de Monsoreau, with a libretto by Auguste Maquet based on the play by Maquet and Alexandre Dumas, was commissioned by the Paris Opera and premiered at the Palais Garnier on 30 January 1888.