Édouard Batiste
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Édouard Batiste (28 March 1820 – 9 November 1876) was a French composer and organist.
Career
[edit]Batiste was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatory as a teenager, winning prizes in solfège, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and organ. In 1840, he won the Prix de Rome together with François Bazin.[1]
In 1842, he became the organist at the church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs in Paris, where he remained for twelve years, before becoming organist at Saint-Eustache Church. While at Saint-Eustache, he performed the organ in the premiere of Hector Berlioz's Te Deum in April 1855, conducted by the composer.[1]
He died in Paris aged 56.
His students included Edward Morris Bowman,[2] composer Léo Delibes, who was also his nephew, and Joseph Lennon.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Rollin Smith, January 2007. Édouard Batiste; retrieved 2009-11-12.
- ^ Garbett, A. S. (July 1911). ""The Etude Gallery of Musical Celebrities"". The Etude. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Company.
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Édouard Batiste at the Internet Archive
- Free scores by Édouard Batiste at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- 1820 births
- 1876 deaths
- Musicians from Paris
- 19th-century classical composers
- 19th-century French composers
- 19th-century French male musicians
- Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- French classical organists
- French male composers
- Prix de Rome for composition
- French male classical organists
- 19th-century organists
- French composer stubs