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René Le Roy
René Le Roy (1898–1985) studied with
Adolphe Hennebains and Léopold
Lafleurance at the Paris Conservatoire,
and later with Philippe Gaubert. Le Roy
was a soloist and chamber music player
who made many recordings. In 1922 he
founded the Quintette Instrumental de
Paris, consisting of flute, harp and string
trio, a successful ensemble for which
many composers wrote new works. Le
Roy’s students included, for a short but
apparently very influential time,
Geoffrey Gilbert.
Christopher Steward’s early flute recordings
The first movement, entitled Entrée
en Sonate, of the Suite Op. 91 by
Vincent D’Indy, one of many works
written for René Le Roy’s Quintette
Instrumental de Paris, formed in
1922.
