Gustave Samazeuilh

Gustave Samazeuilh (1877-1967) was a French composer and a friend and associate of Strauss and Ravel. Samazeuilh began his career in law before turning his attention to music. Studying with Chausson, d'Indy, Bordes and later Paul Dukas at the Schola Cantorum, Samazeulih developed a style in line with early Ravel and Debussy. He would even claim that a theme from one of his own works, Naïades au soir, was adopted almost unchanged by Ravel for the theme of the Nymphs in Daphnis et Chloe.