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Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
composer music educator pianist university professor
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
He served as the first director of the Royal Conservatory of Liège from 1826-1862. Having been appointed to that post by William I of the Netherlands. In addition to his duties as director, he also taught courses in harmony and music composition at the school.
Among his notable pupils were Adolphe Samuel, César Franck, and Jean-Théodore Radoux, the latter of whom succeeded him as conservatory director
Born Louis-Joseph Daussoigne in Givet, he legally changed his name to Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul on 12 August 1845 when he was 55 years old. In 1799 Daussoigne-Méhul entered the Conservatoire de Paris when he was just nine years old.
In 1803 he began teaching music theory at the conservatoire. As a result, he received a scholarship to continue his studies at the French Academy in Rome located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio.
He accordingly resigned his teaching post at the Paris Conservatoire and came to Rome where he studied from February 1810 through late 1813.
He returned to teaching at the conservatoire in Paris in 1814, leaving there in 1826 when he became the first director of the Royal Conservatory of Liège. He remained in that post for the next 35 years. Daussoigne-Méhul died in Liège in 1875 at the age of 84.
Their son was the pianist, organist, composer, and music critic Alexandre-Gustave Daussoigne-Méhul (1830-1932).
In 1859 he was made a Commander of the Order of Leopold. He studied there for the next 10 years, during which time he received several academic honours and competition prizes from the consevertoire. Including premiere prixs in music theory (1799), music composition (1803), piano (1806), counterpoint (1808), and fugue (1808). In 1809 Daussoigne-Méhul won the Prix de Rome with the cantata Agar dans le désert.
