BATISTE, Antoine Edouard

This organist was accounted among the best of modern performers in the brilliant style. His compositions are, on the whole, good and serviceable if somewhat showy pieces for the organ. His andante movements are no doubt the most adapted for church use, and they are not only very melodious but also very skilfully constructed. Batiste endeavoured to procure from his instrument effects which can only be said to belong legitimately to the orchestra. The success with which orchestral effects are imitated...