Georges Longy

He spent the majority of his career with the BSO, and, after 27 years with them, Longy retired so that he could spend time on his farm in France.

[2] In the last five years of Longy's life he no longer continued to play the oboe, but instead turned his attention to looking after his two hundred head of cattle and poultry.

In 1915 during a performance with the BSO, Fritz Kreisler became "captivated by the perfection of Mr. Longy's great art...[and] became so absorbed that he missed his entrance."

[2] Longy used the many positions that he held in the groups that he worked with to premier new French music to the Boston public.

He premiered composers such as Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Berlioz, Hahn and D'Indy in America and brought a new wave of French music to the United States.