sentences:  By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise each Sunday at the organ of Béziers' cathedral during mass.At the age of ten he conducted his own "Fantasie" for orchestra.Both Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns encouraged him to pursue his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in the master class of the pianist Louis Diémer, receiving the class first prize in 1907.