Samuel David

in 1858 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Jephté after Émile Cécile.

That same year, his operetta Peau de l'ours was also performed at Les Folies-Nouvelles.

At an international choir festival in Paris, in which 6000 singers took part, his composition Le Génie de la terre was performed in 1859 and awarded a gold medal.

In addition to choral works, David composed four symphonies as well as numerous operettas and operas, of which only Mademoiselle Sylvia (after Narcisse Fournier) was performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1868 during his lifetime.

In 1862 his music pedagogical writing L’Art de jouer en mesure was published.