Edouard Batiste

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

Life

Batiste, born in Paris in 1820, 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 , to which he remained connected as a teacher until his death. He studied solfège with 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 received numerous first prizes (1833 in Solfège, 1837 in harmony, 1839 in counterpoint and organ) and in 1840 won the Second Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Loyse de Monfort .

Already during his studies he worked at the Conservatoire as an accompanist in singing lessons and taught solfège. In 1839 he was appointed full professor and taught choral singing and solfège. He published a number of textbooks, some of which are still in use today.

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

In 1855, at the opening of the world exhibition, Berlioz ' Grande Messe des Morts was staged with more than 900 participants. In 1863, Batiste conducted the first performance of the Mass for three equal voices by François Bazin in St. Eustache as the conductor of the Société chorale du Conservatoire impérial de musique .

Batiste also belonged to Abbé Jourdan , Vicar General of Paris, Théodore Ballu and François Bazin and Gabriel Davioud , Inspector General for Architecture, of the municipal organ commission ( Commission pour l'examen de devis relatifs à la construction d'orgues d'églises ).

Batiste composed a large number of technically demanding organ works, as well as sacred choral music. Recordings of the organ music by Batiste have u. a. the organists Christopher Herrick and Stanislas Deriemaeker recorded.

Works

• Communion in A major for organ
• Offertoire-fantaisie-orage in c minor for organ
• Offertoire du Saint Jour de 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

Fonts

• Solfèges du Conservatoire par Chérubini, Catel, Méhul, Gossec, Langlé ... , 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 progressives sans accompagnement, dont 90 en clé de sol 2 e, et 10 en clé de fa 4 e
• Leçons de solfège sur toutes les clés et à changements des clés

Web links

• Édouard Batiste on musimem.com (French)