Joseph Morpain (1873 – 12 February 1961) was a French pianist and teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris and École Normale de Musique de Paris, whose prominent students included Clara Haskil and Monique Haas.
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Émile Decombes, a pupil of Frédéric Chopin.
[2] His own pupils at the Conservatoire and the École Normale de Musique included Clara Haskil,[3] Monique Haas,[4] Lucien Wang,[5] Madeleine de Valmalète,[3] Raymond Trouard,[2] Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert,[6] Pierre Maillard-Verger,[7] and Ramon Coll.
[8] He was acting Director of the École Normale de Musique from 1944.
[10] Reynaldo Hahn dedicated the first two of his Premières valses (1898) to Morpain.