Paul Étienne Victor Wachs (19 September 1851 – 6 July 1915) was a French composer, organist and pianist.
[2] He was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, where his teachers included François Benoist and César Franck for organ and Victor Massé and Antoine François Marmontel for composition.
[2] In 1874, he left this position to be the choirmaster at the Church of Saint-Merri.
[2] In 1908, Wachs bought a large property in Saint-Mandé, which he named Les Myrtles after one of his compositions.
[2] Among his works for piano, the most famous is Promenade à Âne.