François Benoist

François Benoist studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Training under Georges Scheyermann, Louis Adam and Charles-Simon Catel is recorded. César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns and Adolphe Adam are recorded as having studied under François Benoist. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera, ballet and music for the Requiem Mass. Employment is recorded with Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Benoist was born in Nantes on 10 September 1794. He took his first music lessons under Georges Scheuermann. Benoist studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Prix de Rome in 1815 for his cantata Œnone. In 1819, he became organist (organiste du roi) and professor of organ at the Conservatoire; he held the latter post for half a century. His students included César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Lecocq, Georges Bizet, Louis Lefébure-Wely, Léo Delibes, and Adolphe Adam. As composer, he was comparatively unimportant, but he wrote two operas, four ballets, one Requiem Mass, and numerous works for organ. He died in Paris.