Bernard Gavoty


Bernard Gavoty was a 20th-century French organist, musicologist and music critic.

Biography

After being a pupil of Louis Vierne, Bernard Gavoty entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he had Denise Launay, Michel Boulnois, Antoine Reboulot, Félicien Wolff and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, among others as classmates in the organ class.
He held a very special place among the students of Marcel Dupré at the Conservatoire. Indeed, a brilliant speaker, endowed with a perfect speech, knowing how to elegantly write, he made numerous lectures, especially for the Jeunesses musicales de France, and was a famous French music critic for Le Figaro under the pseudonym Clarendon in reference to the main character of Beaumarchais's Eugénie. In 1942, he was appointed the holder of the grand organ of the Église Saint-Louis des Invalides which he had rebuilt by the compagny in 1955. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was frequently present on the single television channel to talk to the viewers of classical music. In 1976, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he succeeded Julien Cain in the free members section.
He was also an agricultural engineer graduated from the and a wine grower in the côtes de Provence.

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