Auguste Chapuis
(1858-1933)

Died aged 75

Auguste Chapuis (25 April 1858 – 6 December 1933) was a 19th/20th century French composer, organist, and professor. Hewas 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.

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Auguste Chapuis, compositeur de musique, est mort dans cette maison le 6 décembre 1933.

English translation: Auguste Chapuis, composer, died in this house on December 6, 1933

38 rue du Prony, Paris, France where they died (1933)