Jacques francois gallay biography of rory

GALLAY
" Jacques-Francois Gallay (1795-l864), was born at Perpignan, France (Eastern 
Pyrenees) 8th December 1795. He was professor 
of horn at the Paris Conservatoire following Dauprat, and thought of as a virtuoso.
At the age of ten years, he commenced the study of 
solfege under the direction of a musician named Artus.

Two years afterwards, 
his father, a very good amateur horn player, gave him the first lessons on the 
horn, but it was above all by his own efforts that he came to develop his happy 
inclination for this instrument. An indisposition of the first horn of the 
Theatre de Perpignan afforded him the opportunity to play in public.

Jacques francois gallay biography of rory end

In a production of the Visitandines of Devienne, he played the solo. By this performance he obtained at the age of fourteen years a success that gave him an in-
sight into what could be accomplished by continuing his career. Unhappily, being more or less on his own responsibility, and deprived of good teachers, he
 was uncertain as to