Louis Désiré Besozzi

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

Besozzi came from an Italian family of musicians: his great-great-grandfather Giuseppe Besozzi was an 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 student of Jean-François Lesueur at the Conservatoire de Paris , where he taught from 1831 as the successor to Ferdinand Gasse Solfège. He also worked as a piano teacher at the École de musique classique et religieuse des Louis Niedermeyer , where he was succeeded by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1865. In 1837 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome .

In 1852 Besozzi succeeded Louis Braille on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church in Paris, built in 1845 . He took part in the inauguration of the large Cavaillé-Coll organ in the church in 1852, but his application to become the organist of this instrument was unsuccessful. Peter Cavallo was selected from several applicants .

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

Works

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