Noël Gallon was a French composer

Composer

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 and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works

Choir

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 and vocal art songs, 10 prelude

Prelude (music)

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s, a Toccata for piano

Piano

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, a Sonata for flute

Flute

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 and bassoon

Bassoon

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, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra

Orchestra

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, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats (1911).

Born in Paris, Gallon was the younger brother of composer Jean Gallon

Jean Gallon

Jean Gallon was a French composer, choir conductor, and music educator. His compositional output consists of six antiphons for strings and organ, one mass, one ballet, and several art songs....

 with whom he studied harmony

Harmony

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 at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1910 he won the Prix de Rome

Prix de Rome

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 with the cantata Acis et Galathée. In 1920 he joined the faculty of the conservatoire as a professor of solfège

Solfege

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. He began teaching counterpoint

Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent . It has been most commonly identified in classical music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period,...

 at the school in 1926 . His many notable students include such well-known composers as Claude Arrieu

Claude Arrieu

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, Tony Aubin

Tony Aubin

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, Jocelyne Binet

Jocelyne Binet

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, Gerd Boder, Paul Bonneau

Paul Bonneau

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, Pierre Dervaux

Pierre Dervaux

Pierre Dervaux was a French operatic conductor, composer, and pedagogue. At the Conservatoire de Paris, he studied counterpoint and harmony with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau and Jean and Noël Gallon, as well as piano with Isidor Philipp, Armand Ferté, and Yves Nat...

, Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...

, Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

, Ulvi Cemal Erkin

Ulvi Cemal Erkin

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, Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...

, Jean Hubeau

Jean Hubeau

Jean Hubeau was a French pianist, composer and pedagogue.- Biography :Admitted at the age of 9 years to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, he studied composition with Paul Dukas, piano with Lazare Lévy, harmony with Jean Gallon, and counterpoint with Noël Gallon...

, Paul Kuentz

Paul Kuentz

Paul Kuentz is a French conductor who studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1947 to 1950, with Noël Gallon, Georges Hugon and Eugene Bigot. He founded the Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra in 1951 and made many tours of Europe and the USA, performing the orchestral works of Bach at the Church of...

, Paule Maurice

Paule Maurice

Paule Maurice was a French composer born in Paris September 29, 1910 to Raoul Auguste Alexandre Maurice and Marguerite Jeanne Lebrun and died August 18, 1967 in Paris. Her full name was Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice...

, Xian Xinghai

Xian Xinghai

Xian Xinghai was one of the earliest generation of Chinese composers influenced by western classical music and has influenced generations of Chinese musicians...

, Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

, and René Saorgin

René Saorgin

René Saorgin is an organist who was born in Cannes in 1928. He began his musical studies at the Nice Conservatoire and then went to Paris to study composition with Maurice Duruflé and Noël Gallon at the Paris Conservatoire. Benefitting from the revival of the classical organ between 1955 and 1960,...

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