Michel Glotz
Michel Glotz (1 February 1931 – 15 February 2010) was a French classical music record producer and impresario. Life Glotz was a student of Marguerite Long and accomplice of Francis Poulenc with whom he had a long correspondence. Artistic director of several record companies (EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Philips, Sony), he had more than a thousand discs recorded, including a hundred operas. In this capacity, he obtained several Grammy Awards in Hollywood including Beethoven's nine symphonies by Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1978, or the "most beautiful opera of the year" award for Bizet's Carmen in 1984. In 1966, he and his collaborator Thérèse Darras founded a concert agency called Musicaglotz. He then turned his attention to the careers of legendary artists such as Maria Callas, Herbert von Karajan, Alain Lombard, Alexis Weissenberg. Glotz received the insignia of officier des Arts et Lettres, and chevalier de la Légion d'honneur en 2007. He died of a heart attack in 2010 at age 79. Artists represented Conductors: Serge Baudo, Sergiu Comissiona, James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach, Patrick Fournillier, James Judd, Herbert von Karajan, Alain Lombard, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Thomas Sanderling, Michel