Émile Bouichère

Marc-Émile-Charles Bouichère (born April 11, 1861 in Djidjelli , † September 4, 1895 in Paris ) was a French organist.

Bouichère studied counterpoint and harmony with Eugène Gigout , organ and improvisation with Clément Loret and composition with Gustave Lefèvre at the École Niedermeyer from 1877 . He received his first position as organist in 1883 at the Saint-Nicolas church in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés . In 1885 he succeeded André Messager , who later became director of the Paris Opera , as organist at the Paris church of Sainte-Marie des Batignolles .

He then became Kapellmeister at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité . He gave music lessons here and worked as a choirmaster with the main organist Alexandre Guilmant and the organist of the choir organ, Théodore Salomé . Dominique-Charles Planchet was his successor in 1895 .

He also taught piano at the École Niedermeyer and the Collège de Joinville and singing at the École de chant , founded by his wife, the singer Émilie Ambre . He published two volumes of previously unpublished or little-known organ pieces (around 1890) and composed several church music works, including an offertory, the motet O sacrum and a cantate domino . On the 100th birthday of the chemist Eugène Chevreul , his Marche triomphale was performed in Paris . The performance of his Cantate pour le 14e centenaire du baptême de la France took place in Reims in 1895.