Émile Bienaimé

Paul-Émile Bienaimé (born July 6, 1802 in Paris , † January 17, 1869 there ) was a French composer .

Bienaimé attended the school of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral and then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Victor Dourlen and François-Joseph Fétis . In 1825 he won a school composition competition with a four-part fugue, and the following year he won the deuxième Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Herminie .

In 1827 Bienaimé was appointed conductor at Notre Dame de Paris as the successor to his teacher Pierre Desvignes . Here he had the opportunity to perform his church music works, including a requiem with a large orchestra in memory of Louis XVI in 1830 . and Marie-Antoinette . In 1828 he founded the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire with the violinist François-Antoine habeneck , of which he was a member until 1848. He participated as a singer in numerous company performances.

After the July Revolution of 1830, his apprenticeship at Notre Dame was abolished and he devoted himself entirely to teaching at the Conservatoire, where he had been teaching since 1825. He was initially a tutor in a solfège class and was appointed professor in 1834. In 1864 he retired from teaching at the Conservatoire.

In addition to church music, including several masses, Bienaimé composed an overture for large orchestra and wrote several music pedagogical and scientific works.

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• Cinquante études d'harmonie pratique, Paris 1844
• École de l'harmonie modern
• Claude Montal , facteur de pianos (aveugle), sa vie et ses travaux (in collaboration with Pierre Armand Dufau ), Paris 1857
• Histoire du piano depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours