Édouard Batiste

Antoine- Édouard Batiste ( born March 28, 1820 Paris, † November 9, 1876 ibid ) was a French composer, organist and music teacher.

Life

Batiste, born in 1820 in Paris, received his first music lessons from his father, the singer Jean Batiste and his older sister Clémence, who later became the mother of Léo Delibes. At the age of eight, he came to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he remained until his death as a teacher. He studied solfège at Simon Leborne and Émile Bienaimé, harmony and accompaniment with Félix Le Couppey and Victor Dourlen and composition Luigi Cherubini and Fromental Halévy. His organ teacher was François Benoist. He has received numerous first prizes ( 1833 in solfege, 1837 in Harmony, 1839 in counterpoint and organ) and won in 1840 with the cantata Loyse de Monfort the Second Premier Grand Prix de Rome.

Already during his studies he worked at the Conservatoire as a companion in vocal lessons and taught solfege. In 1839 he was appointed as a full professor and taught choral singing and solfege. He published a number of textbooks, some of which are in use to the present day.

1842 Batiste was the successor of Paul Charreire organist at the Clicquot organ in the church of Saint- Nicolas-des -Champs in the center of Paris. In 1854, he joined as the successor of Florimond Ronger, who became famous under the name Hervé as an operetta composer, at the Church of St -Eustache. The four-manual organ of this church, restored in the year of Alexandre Ducroquet, was considered the most important modern instrument in Paris.

1855 here ' Grande Messe des Morts with more than 900 participants was performed at the opening of World Expo Berlioz. 1863 led Batiste as conductor of the Société chorale du Conservatoire de musique impérial the premiere of the show for three equal voices by François Bazin in St -Eustache.

In addition, Batiste was next Abbé Jourdan, the vicar general of Paris, Théodore Ballu and François Bazin and Gabriel Davioud, the Inspector General for architecture, urban Organ Commission (Commission pour l' examen de devis relatifs à la construction d' orgues d' églises ) to.

Batiste composed a large number of technically demanding organ works, besides also sacred choral music. Recordings of organ music by Batiste have recorded, inter alia, the organist Christopher Herrick and Stanislas Deriemaeker.

Works

• Communion in A Major for Organ
• Offertoire - fantaisie - orage in C Minor for Organ
• Offertoire du Jour de Saint Pâques for Organ
• Trois Elévations for Organ
• Offertoire de Ste -Cécile for Organ
• Grand Offertoire en ré for Organ
• Ave Maria for soprano, tenor or bass
• O Salutaris for soprano or tenor

Writings

• Solfèges du Conservatoire par Cherubini, Catel, Mehul, Gossec, LANGLE ... ', ed. 10 volumes, Paris 1865-1869
• Leçons sur toutes les clefs et à changement de clefs, édition populaire sans accompagnement
• Petit solfège harmonique, ou Traité d'harmonie élémentaire
• Petit solfège mélodique, théorique et pratique, comprenant 100 leçons mélodiques et sans accompagnement progressive, dont 90 en clé de sol 2 e, en clé de fa et 10 4 e
• Leçons de solfège sur toutes les clés et à changements of clés