Jacques-François Gallay

Jacques-François Gallay (8 December 1795 – 18 October 1864)[1] was a French horn player, academic and composer of music for the instrument.

Gallay was born in Perpignan, in the south of France, in 1795; his father was an amateur horn player.

[2] Eventually in 1820 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, and studied with the horn player Louis Francois Dauprat.

[2] He succeeded Dauprat as professor of the horn at the Conservatoire, remaining in the post until his death in 1864.

[2][3] Gallay wrote Méthode pour le Cor (1845) for the natural horn.