![]() But the record catalogue at least has done him proud, with admirable discs by Martyn Hill (Hyperion, 8/88), Francois Le Roux (REM, 11/91) and Hyperion’s Vol. A pupil of Massenet and Saint-Saens, he wrote over 30 stage works as well as orchestral and chamber compositions and a first-class book on the interpretation of French song, conducted Mozart at Salzburg, was music critic of Le Figaro, and after the Second World War directed the Paris Opera. The image of the dandyish Reynaldo Hahn, bosom friend of Proust, singing (with no voice to speak of, and a cigarette in his mouth) his songs to his own accompaniment to adoring audiences in fashionable Paris salons has led to his being under-estimated as a talented dilettante but he was far from that.
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