Édouard Batiste
Illustration — Grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery Édouard Batiste (edwaʁ batist; 28 March 1820 – 9 November 1876) was a French composer and organist.
Also recorded as Edouard Batiste
Édouard Batiste
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- Born
- 1820. · former 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- 1876. · 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- organist, composer, music educator, university teacher, music arranger and music teacher.
- Fields
- music and organ performance.
- Movements
- classical music.
- Teachers
- Félix Le Couppey.
- Honours
- Prix de Rome.
- Languages
- French.
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Training under Félix Le Couppey is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is music and organ performance. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with Conservatoire de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome.
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Édouard Batiste was born on 28 March 1820; the birthplace is Paris, France, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the 2nd arrondissement. Édouard Batiste died on 9 November 1876 in Paris, 10th arrondissement, France.
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. 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. He died in Paris aged 56. His students included Edward Morris Bowman, composer Léo Delibes, who was also his nephew, and Joseph Lennon.
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Édouard Batiste (28 March 1820 – 9 November 1876) was a composer, organist, arranger and music teacher.
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former 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
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10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris.
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