François Benoist
François Benoist (10 September 1794 – 6 May 1878) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Benoist was born in Nantes. He took his first music lessons under Georges Scheuermann. Benoist studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Prix de Rome in 1815 for his cantata Œnone. In 1819, he became organist (organiste du roi) and professor of organ at the Conservatoire; he held the latter post for half a century.
François Benoist (10 September 1794 – 6 May 1878) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
Benoist was born in Nantes. He took his first music lessons under Georges Scheuermann. Benoist studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Prix de Rome in 1815 for his cantata Œnone. In 1819, he became organist (organiste du roi) and professor of organ at the Conservatoire; he held the latter post for half a century. His students included César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Lecocq, Georges Bizet, Louis Lefébure-Wely, Léo Delibes, and Adolphe Adam. As composer, he was comparatively unimportant, but he wrote two operas, four ballets, one Requiem Mass, and numerous works for organ. He died in Paris.

Selected compositions
Léonore et Félix, opéra-comique, 1821
Chœur d'adieu, 1836
La Gipsy, ballet, 1839
Le Diable amoureux, ballet, 1840
Bibliothèque de l'organiste, 12 volumes, 1841–1861
Messe de Requiem pour trois voix d'homme et une d'enfant, avec accompagnement d'orgue ad libitum, 1842.
Othello, opera, 1844
L'Apparition, opera, 1848
Nisida ou les Amazones des Açores, ballet (book by Eugène Deligny), 1848
Paquerette, ballet (with Arthur Saint-Léon), 1851
Deux Préludes, 1860
Recueil de quatre morceaux pour orgue : Andante, Fugue sur le "Pange lingua", Marche religieuse, Communion, 1878
Messe à 4 voix, orgue et orchestre, 1861
Ave Maria pour mezzo-soprano
Kyrie à 4 voix
O Salutaris à une voix,
Cantique à la Sainte Vierge

See also
See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#François Benoist.

External links
François Benoist : un maître nantais oublié (in French)
Free scores by François Benoist at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
La Gipsy, ballet, 3 acts, by Francois Benoist, French, digitized by BYU on archive.org