Édouard Risler

He studied under Louis Diémer, Théodore Dubois and Émile Decombes at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1883 to 1890.

He gave several major cycles: the 32 sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven from October to December 1905, at the Salle Pleyel, the complete works of Frédéric Chopin and The Well-Tempered Clavier of Johann Sebastian Bach.

He married Émilie Girette, an amateur singer for whom Gabriel Fauré had written several of his songs.

Emmanuel Chabrier dedicated his Bourrée fantasque to him,[n 1] and Enrique Granados the Coloquio en la reja, extract of Goyescas.

Risler made a piano transcription of Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks.