Jacques-Louis Battmann

Jacques-Louis Battmann (25 August 1818 – 7 July 1886) was a 19th-century French organist and composer.

Jacques-Louis Battmann
Portrait by Hermann Raunheim (1850)
Born25 August 1818
Masevaux, France
Died7 July 1886(1886-07-07) (aged 67)
Dijon
Occupations
  • Classical organist
  • Composer

Life

Born in Masevaux, Battmann was around 1840 organist in Belfort, later in Vesoul and Dijon, where he also died. He published a total of 456 works, mainly in the field of Organ and piano music as well as sacred and secular choral works.

Selected works
for Pipe organ/Harmonium
  • Pieces d'Orgue: Entrée, Offertoire, Élévation, Communion, Sortie Opus 30, for organ
  • 72 Morceaux pour Orgue ou Harmonium, Opus 60
  • Les Immortelles opus 440, for organ or harmonium
  • Le plain chant romain harmonisé Opus 250

for Choir

  • Messe No. 1 in F major, for two equal voices with organ or harmonium., Opus 143[1] (New edition Kleinmachnow 2014)
  • Messe No. 2 in C major, Opus 282
  • Messe No. 3 in E flat major, for two equal voices with organ or harmonium, Opus 366
  • Petite messe solennelle in C major, Opus 335
  • Messe d’une très facile Exécution for solo and choir in unison with organ or harmonium, Opus 63

References
  1. Mass No.1, Op.143 on OPENMUSIC

Bibliography
  • René Muller, "Jacques Louis Battmann", in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 2, (p. 127)
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