Félix Cazot
Félix Cazot (born April 6, 1790 in Orléans , † December 24, 1857 in Paris ) was a French music teacher and composer.
Cazot studied from 1804 at the Conservatoire de Paris piano with Louis Pradhère , harmony with Charles Simon Catel and composition with François-Joseph Gossec and François-Joseph Fétis . In 1812 he won the premier Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Madame de la Vallière .
In 1814 Cazot married the singer Joséphine Armand , the niece and pupil of Anne-Aimeé Armand , with whom he went to Belgium when she got an engagement at the theater in Brussels in 1817. He worked as a piano teacher in Brussels and published variations on the song Au claire de la lune for piano here.
After the contract expired, Cazot returned to Paris in 1826. Here he founded a piano school and published a Méthode élémentaire de piano .
literature
- Joël-Marie Fauquet, Dictionnaire de la Musique en France au xix e siècle , Paris, Fayard, 2003, ISBN 2-213-59316-7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cazot, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French music teacher and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1857 |
| Place of death | Paris |