Education
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Émile Decombes, a pupil of Frédéric Chopin.
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Émile Decombes, a pupil of Frédéric Chopin.
He was also a student of Gabriel Fauré. His own pupils at the Conservatoire and the École Normale de Musique included Clara Haskil, Monique Haas, Lucien Wang, Madeleine de Valmalète, Raymond Trouard, Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert, Pierre Maillard-Verger, and Ramon College He was acting Director of the École Normale de Musique from 1944.
He published "Comment il faut jouer du piano", and "50 Chansons des Charentes et du Poitou" (1924).
Reynaldo Hahn dedicated the first two of his Premières valses (1898) to Morpain.