Auguste Bazille, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Auguste Bazille

French composer and organist

Date of Birth: 27-May-1828

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1891

Profession: composer, organist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Auguste Bazille

  • Auguste Bazille (27 May 1828 – 18 April 1891) was a 19th-century French organist, composer, chef de chant and professor. Auguste Bazille was a brilliant student at the Conservatoire de Paris (1st prize in music theory, 1841, harmony 1845, fugue 1846, organ 1847, 2nd Grand Prix de Rome).
  • He led a triple career as an organist, chef de chant at the OpĂ©ra-Comique and professor of practical harmony and accompaniment at the Conservatoire. Appointed to the new Suret organ at the Ă©glise Sainte-Élisabeth-de-Hongrie in Paris in 1853, he was a close friend of the Suret (best man at Augustus Suret's marriage in 1855).
  • He inaugurated several of their instruments from 1848.
  • An appreciated improviser, he was often called for organ inaugurations in Paris and in the provinces (Ă©glise Saint-Sulpice Paris, 1862, Saint-Eustache, Paris, 1854, Ă©glise Saint-Germain-des-PrĂ©s Paris, and Rouen, Toulouse, Nancy ...). As chef de chant at the OpĂ©ra-Comique, he was close to the Parisian milieu of opera and opĂ©ra comique.
  • In particular, he was a close friend of Charles Gounod and Georges Bizet (he played the organ for the funeral of Bizet), of Louis James Alfred LefĂ©bure-WĂ©ly (he played the organ at the wedding of his daughter). Bazille reduced to "piano and singing" numerous opera scores of the nineteenth, from Adam to Wagner.
  • He wrote a few compositions for voice, piano and expressive organ. As a teacher of practical harmony at the piano (piano accompaniment), Bazille had many students, the most famous among them being the composers Claude Debussy and MĂ©lanie Bonis.

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