Émile Pessard
Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (29 May 1843 – 10 February 1917) was a French composer.
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won 1st prize in Harmony.
In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on 21 February 1867.
His students included Maurice Ravel, Jacques Ibert, William Molard,[1] Albert Seitz[2] and Justin Élie.
[4] He composed many comic operas and operettas, as well as masses.
Émile Pessard; photograph by Charles Reutlinger (about 1880).
