Romain Bussine

Romain Bussine (4 November 1830 – 20 December 1899) was a French voice teacher, baritone singer, translator and poet active in the second half of the 19th century.

He was born in Paris; and from the late 1860s until his death Bussine was professor of solfége (singing) at the city's Conservatoire.

[1] In 1871, together with Camille Saint-Saëns he founded the Société nationale de musique as a forum for promoting contemporary French chamber and orchestral music.

[3] He also translated La Fille du roi des Aulnes (The Erl King’s Daughter), based on a Danish legend, which was published in 1878 and may originally have been intended to become an opera libretto.

Another setting by Fauré of a poem by Bussine is Sérénade Toscane, a fairly free version of a slightly sardonic Tuscan serenade.