Auguste Chapuis

 ( French Romantic Composers ) 

Auguste Chapuis (; 25 April 1858 – 6 December 1933) was a 19th/20th century French composer, organist, and professor. He was a student with César Franck. The in the 20th arrondissement of Paris was named after him when he died in 1933.

He was awarded the Prix Rossini in 1886 for Les Jardins d'Armide on a libretto by the playwright Émile Moreau.

In 1894, he succeeded Adolphe Danhauser as head of the municipal of Paris.

Two scores were dedicated to him, one by Jacques Charlot, Chanson (1910), for piano, and the other one by Samuel Rousseau, 12 Pièces for organ.

• Sept paroles du Christ, oratorio for soloists, choir, and orchestra, Notre-Dame-des-Champs Church, 1883, with Charlotte Jacquemont, a soprano student of Mr. Saint-Yves BaxJean-Baptiste Alexandre Saint-Yves Bax (Paris, 3 October 1829 - 9 February 1897, Paris), and Devineau, tenor, student of Crosti, and one hundred and fifty performers, conducted by Mr. Lucien Michelot, choirmaster.[1] Le Progrès artistique, 23 March 1883, on Gallica
• Les Jardins d'Armide, lyrical scene, or cantata (1886, libretto by Émile Moreau). Prix Rossini
• 2 Pièces pour violoncelle, avec piano (1890)*: Sérénade mélancolique ; Badinage /a> : free scores on Gallica
• La source, three-part chorus a cappella on a poem by Théophile Gautier (1898)
• Solo de trompette en fa*, avec piano (1899)
• Enguerrande, lyrical drama in 4 acts and 5 tableaux, libretto by Victor Wilder after the poem by Émile Bergerat, created at the Opéra-Comique on 9 may 1892. Choudens 1892 [3] : free score on Gallica
• Poèmes d'amour, ten songs on poems by 1895[4] : Score on Gallica
• Trimazô ( Chanson de Mai). Poem by André Theuriet : P. Colin (Nîmes) 1895 [5] : free score on Gallica
• Sérénade pour violon solo et 3 violons concertants, Durand et fils, Paris, 1903 [6] : free score on Gallica
• Impressions sylvestres, 5 pieces for Cello & Piano (1906)[7] : Gallica
• Fantaisie concertante* for double bass and piano[8] : free score on Gallica. Durand 1907
• Si mes vers avaient des ailes*[9] : free score on Gallica and Aime celui qui t'aime, et sois heureuse[10] : free score on Gallica (1909, poems by Victor Hugo)
• Hymne à la beauté, poem by Stéphan Bordèse (1847-1919), for high voice, Durand & fils (Paris) 1909[11] : free score on Gallica
• En avril, dans les bois, Printemps triste, Mythologie[12] ; [13][14] : free scores on Gallica (André Theuriet), 1909
• Le poème du travail* (1911, words by Maurice Bouchor) for tenor solo, choir and orchestra (70 pages)
• L'Alouette (Theuriet), choir for 3 voices, 1911[15] : free score on Gallica
• Les deux ménétriers* (1912, poem by Jean Richepin), choir for 4 voices
• Piano trio* (1912)
• Méditation, for organ, 1912 in Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue, Vol.1 : free score on IMSLP
• La Chanson du Charbonnier (1903) - song of the Charcoal-burner (poem by André Theuriet), choir for 4 voices and orchestra[16] : Abebooks
• Violin Sonata* (1921)
• * Les Demoiselles de St. Cyr, musical comedy in four acts. Piano-vocal score : Chaudens 1921, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 19 April 1921 (composed much earlier)The work was commissioned by Albert Carré and was to be performed at the Opéra-Comique during the 1903–1904 season. ([17] : La Gazette de Biarritz-Bayonne et Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on Gallica). Announced again for the following season, it was still not on the programme in 1917, lamented the journalist from La Rampe. ( La Rampe, on Gallica) It was finally presented at the Monte Carlo Opera House in 1921, with Nelly Martyl (leading role), Geneviève Vix (as Louise Mauclair), Paul Goffin (1885-1947) and Dinh Gilly. Libretto (based on Alexandre Dumas's The Young Ladies of Saint-Cyr, 1843): André Lénéka and Arthur Bernède ([19] on Gallica). Lénéka (1856–1937) was also the chief editor of La Rampe, a critic, theatre director, writer of comedies and libretti for opéras comiques: Les Folies amoureuses (music by Émile Pessard), Ninon de Lenclos (music by , La Mare au diable, Ramponnette (music by Casimir Baille and Sélim), Mam'zelle Vendémiaire (music by and Ernest Gillet), as well as comédies-vaudevilles: "Veuve avant la lettre", "Ma Capitaine", "La Chasse aux mariés" (with ), etc.
• 2 Pièces pour hautbois et piano* (1922)
• Complainte de la Glu (poem by Jean Richepin), for voice and piano, 1922[20] : free score on Gallica
• Harpe éolienne* (1923); Carillon ; David devant l'arche, in Fresque marine, Vol. 1, by Alexander Rider (harp)[21] L'Ere nouvelle, January 20, 1924, on Gallica
• Choral pour contrebasse et piano* (1924)
• 3 Pièces pour flûte et piano* (1927): Pastorale ; L'étoile du berger ; Faunes et dryades dansent au clair de lune[22] : free score on Gallica
• Vocalise-Étude Part of a collection of Vocalises-Études commissioned from various composers and compiled into a single volume by Amédée-Louis Hettich (1930) : [23]
• Three pieces for piano: L'Aurore sur le lac ; Dans la montagne ; Rondes enfantines. Durand 1931
• Ronde, score for 2 female voices or children song. Durand & Cie
• Tambourin, score for 2 female voices or children song. Durand & Cie
• Le Chêne abattu, choir for three equal voices. Score for chant. Durand & Cie
• Tercet, on a poem by A. Steenackers (Aline, Pierre Louÿs's wife?)
• Les caresses, ten songs on poems by Jean Richepin, Grus éditions, 1889[24] : free score on Gallica. Words on Lieder.net
• Quatre mélodies, poems by Henri de Régnier (on lieder.net)

'*' Free scores on imslp.org