Félix Cazot (6 April 1790 – 24 December 1857) was a French

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and music teacher. Born in

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

where he obtained a First prize in 1811. In 1812, he won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

for his cantata ''Madame de la Vallière''. In 1814, Cazot married the singer Joséphine Armand, the niece and pupil of Anne-Aimeé Armand, with whom he went to Belgium when she was engaged at the Brussels Theatre in 1817. He taught the piano in Brussels from 1814 to 1821. Then he returned to Paris to continue teaching. He mainly composed pieces for the piano. He wrote a ''Méthode moderne et facile pour le piano-forte''. Cazot died in Paris at age 67.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cazot, Felix 1790 births 1857 deaths French Romantic composers 19th-century French male classical pianists French piano educators Conservatoire de Paris alumni Prix de Rome for composition Musicians from Orléans Burials at Montmartre Cemetery