Louis Désiré Besozzi

Louis Désiré Besozzi ( born April 3, 1814 Versailles, † November 11, 1879 in Paris) was a French composer, pianist and organist.

Besozzi came from an Italian family of musicians: his great-grandfather Giuseppe Besozzi was oboist in Parma, his great-grandfather Gaetano Besozzi oboist at the court of Naples, and later in the chapel of Versailles, his grandfather Girolamo Besozzi oboist in the service of the King of France and his father Henri Besozzi flutist at the Opéra -Comique. He was a pupil of Jean -François Lesueur at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became the successor of Ferdinand Gasse taught solfège in 1831. He also worked as a piano teacher at the Ecole de musique classique et religieuse of Louis Niedermeyer, where he Camille Saint- Saëns in 1865 succeeded. In 1837 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome.

1852 Besozzi was successor of Louis Braille in 1845 built Cavaillé -Coll organ in the church of Saint -Vincent- de -Paul in Paris. He was part of the opening ceremonies for the great Cavaillé -Coll organ of the church in 1852, his candidature as organist of this instrument, however, was unsuccessful. For several candidates Peter Cavallo was selected.

Bezozzi composed mainly piano and choral works as well as a four -volume work practice pieces for choir singing.

Works

• La Belle lune blanche
• Debout petit berger
• Le Soleil levant
• La patrie
• Appel au printemps
• Bonsoir ...
• Solfèges ( choral études ) sans accompagnement à l' usage of orphéons et sociétés chorales in four volumes

• Composer ( romance )
• Classic pianist
• Classic organist
• Frenchman
• Born in 1814
• Died in 1879
• Man