Philippe Gaubert

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Philippe Gaubert (1879 – 1941) was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute.

Gaubert was born in Cahors in Southwest France. He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars. After a prominent career as a flautist with the Paris Opéra, he was appointed in 1919, at the age of forty, to three positions that placed him at the very center of French musical life:

Professor of flute at the Conservatoire de Paris (professor from Marcel Moyse),
Principal conductor of the Paris Opéra
Principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.

As a composer, Gaubert was by no means an innovator, but his work benefited from many of the innovations of Franck, Ravel and Debussy. Gaubert died in Paris in 1941 of a stroke. His friend, the journalist Jean Bouzerand obtained from the town of Cahors the creation, at the end of the years 1930, of a public garden named "Philippe Gaubert" near the river Lot.

Preceded by André Messager	Principal conductors, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire 1919–1938	Succeeded by Charles Münch