Auguste Bazille
Auguste Bazille was a 19th-century French organist, composer, and professor.
Auguste Bazille was a brilliant student at the Conservatoire de Paris. He led a triple career as an organist, chef de chant at the Opéra-Comique and professor of practical harmony and accompaniment at the Conservatoire.
Appointed to the new Suret organ at the in Paris in 1853, he was a close friend of the Suret. He inaugurated several of their instruments from 1848. An appreciated improviser, he was often called for organ inaugurations in Paris and in the provinces.
As chef de chant at the Opéra-Comique, he was close to the Parisian milieu of opera and opéra comique. In particular, he was a close friend of Charles Gounod and Georges Bizet, of Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély.
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, Bazille had many students, the most famous among them being the composers Claude Debussy and Mélanie Bonis.
