Édouard Batiste

Édouard Batiste (March 28, 1820 – November 9, 1876) was a French composer and organist. He was born and died in Paris.

While studying at the Imperial Conservatoire as a teenager, he won prizes in solfège, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and organ. In 1840, Batiste won the Prix de Rome together with François Bazin.

In 1842, Batiste became the organist at St.-Nicolas-des-Champs church in Paris, where he remained for 12 years, before becoming organist at Saint-Eustache Church. While at Saint-Eustache, he performed the organ in the première of Hector Berlioz's Te Deum in April 1855, conducted by the composer.

External links

• Free scores by Édouard Batiste at the International Music Score Library Project