Michel Glotz

Michel Glotz was a French classical music record producer and impresario. He was a student of Marguerite Long and accomplice of Francis Poulenc with whom he had a long correspondence. Artistic director of several record companies, he had more than a thousand discs recorded, including a hundred operas. Glotz won several Grammy Awards, including Beethoven's nine symphonies by Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1978 and 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.