Paul Émile Bienaimé (6 July 1802 – 17 January 1869) was a 19th-century French composer.
Biography A pupil at the , he studied at the Conservatoire with Victor Dourlen and François-Joseph Fétis. In 1822 he won the prize in harmony and in 1825, was laureate of a competition of musical composition organised by the Conservatoire with a four-act fugue and finished in second place of the prix de Rome with his cantata Herminie in 1826.
In 1827, he succeeded Pierre Desvignes as kapellmeister at Notre-Dame de Paris where he would play most of his sacred works, such as the Requiem in 1830 with large orchestra in honour of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
With François-Antoine Habeneck he founded the "Société des concerts du Conservatoire" in 1828. His position at Notre-Dame was abolished after the July Revolution. He then devoted himself to teaching at the Conservatory in the classes of harmony and accompaniment, which he left in 1864 to retire.
Works He wrote sacred music, works for salon, an orchestral overture and books on music education (Cinquante études d'harmonie pratique, Paris, 1844).
1842: Les Écoliers de Paris, nocturne, lyrics by Jules Turgan 1842: Vole, ma noire gondole, melody, lyrics by Jules Turgan 1846: Théodie, songbook with several voices on Sacred History 1850: Les Papillons d'or, valse for piano four-hands, op.11 1855: Nérina !, polka-mazurka for piano 1856: Le Gâteau des Rois, ballade for barytone, lyrics by Edmond de Faulques 1857: Le Petit ange, romance, lyrics by Eugène Mahon 1858: Fleur de Bohême, polka for piano 1859: Ave Regina coelorum. Antienne à la Vierge. À quatre voix 1866: Éloge de la paresse, ditty, lyrics by Antignac 1869: L'Enfant et le passereau, arranged by par F. Morand, lyrics by Spenner 1869: Mai, couplets à trois voix égales, 1857, later arranged with accompaniment with piano by F. Morand, lyrics by Spenner undated: Chant français à l'occasion du Sacre de Charles X, lyrics by Octave Uzanne undated: Le Départ de la goélette, ditty, lyrics by Poisson undated: Fugue à huit voix réelles undated: Priez Dieu, romance, lyrics by Poisson
Bibliography Louis Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, vol. 1, 1858, (p. 199) Théodore Lassabathie, Histoire du Conservatoire impérial de musique, 1860, (p. 426)