Description: | Théodore-César Salomé (20 January 1834 – 26 July 1896) was a French organist and composer.
Number 2 Prière from Dix pièces pour orgue, vol. 3, op. 48 (Schott 1894). dedicated to Monsieur Philip Hale.
Théodore Salomé was born in Paris. He completed all of his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, under the tutelage of François Bazin for harmony and accompaniment, and François Benoist for organ. He won several honorable awards, including: second prize in harmony (1855), second prize in organ and in harmony (1856), second and third prize in harmony and organ (1857), and second prize in harmony (1859). His cantata Atala was awarded the premier Second Grand Prix of the Prix de Rome in 1861. In the same year Théodore Dubois was awarded the first grand prize, and Eugène Anthiome and Titus Constantin won the deuxième Second Grand Prix.
He wrote six sets of pieces for the organ dedicated to Guilmant, Foote, Flagler, Best, Stanford, Stainer, Gigout, Dubois, Cavaillé-Col and others.
He was choir organist at the Église de la Saint-Trinité in Paris until his death. |