Auguste Chapuis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Auguste Chapuis

French composer, choreographer and music educator

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1858

Place of Birth: Dampierre-sur-Salon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1933

Profession: composer, choreographer, music pedagogue

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 rue Auguste-Chapuis 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 orphéon of Paris.