Gallay became 1833 successors of Dauprat as a professor for horn (natural horn) at the Parisian Conservatoire.

Gallays oeuvre is very extensively, next to didactic works, and others études and a horn school, it composed 2 horn concerts and different other works for horn and orchestras. In the chamber music, certainly today, its grand is frequently played to Quatuor op.26 for 4 horns in different tones.
The Fantasy for horn and the piano op.34 has a theme of the chansonier Frederic Bérat from the Romance "Ma Normandie".

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