Nicolas Séjan
1745 — 1819
Louis-Nicolas Séjan was a French organist and composer.
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Nicolas Séjan, a celebrated Parisian organist, was born in 1745 and died in 1819. He was a pupil of Forqueray, identified by Fétis (1880) as Nicolas-Gilles Forqueray, who was himself an organist at Saint-Séverin. Séjan began his distinguished career early, becoming organist of St.-André-des-Arts in 1760, and by 1772, he was organist of Notre-Dame, sharing duties with notable contemporaries such as Daquin, Couperin, and Balbâtre, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). His career continued to flourish, with appointments at St.-Sulpice in 1783 and the royal chapel in 1789, where he also taught at the “École royale de chant.”
The French Revolution, however, saw him lose these positions, though he later regained a post at the Invalides in 1807 and returned to the royal chapel in 1814 (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900). Séjan was also an influential teacher, providing private organ instruction to Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wély, who would later succeed him at St.-Sulpice in 1863, as noted in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1905). His published compositions include six violin sonatas, piano sonatas, three piano trios, and music for piano and organ (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900).