Born in Versailles, Louis Besozzi belonged a family of artists from Italy, many of them with a reputation of being instrumental in Turin, Naples and Dresden.
[1] He entered the Conservatoire de Paris on 18 July 1825 as a pupil of Auguste Barbereau (piano) and Jean-François Lesueur (composition).
[2][3] From 1831 he worked at the Conservatory as successor of Ferdinand Gasse in solfège and later as piano teacher at the École de musique classique et religieuse of Louis Niedermeyer, where he was succeeded by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1865.
In 1852, Besozzi succeeded Louis Braille on the Cavaillé-Coll organ,[1] built in 1845 in the Church of St. Vincent de Paul.
He had attended the inaugural ceremony for this great organ on 26 January 1852, but his career as organist remained unsuccessful.