Gustave Samazeuilh

__NOTOC__Gustave Marie Victor Fernand Samazeuilh (2 June 1877 – 4 August 1967) was a French composer and writer on music. He produced many piano transcriptions of orchestral works, and also wrote musical biography.

Life and career Gustave Samazeuilh was born on 2 June 1877 in Bordeaux, France. He was a childhood friend of Maurice Ravel, and they remained friends until 1937 when Ravel died. He studied music privately with Ernest Chausson who in 1897 introduced him to Paul Dukas.

Samazeuilh published monographs on two of his teachers: Chausson and Dukas. He wrote music criticism for a variety of French-language publications, including the newspapers Le Temps, and Sud Ouest; the musical magazines La Revue musicale and Le courrier musical; and the cultural magazine Revue des deux Mondes. He also worked for Radio France.

Samazeuilh died in Paris on 4 August 1967.