Auguste Chapuis was a French composer, organist, and professor. He studied with César Franck.
In 1886, Chapuis received the Prix Rossini for The Gardens of Armida, a cantata set to a libretto by Émile Moreau. His lyrical drama Enguerrande, with a libretto by Victor Wilder after a poem by Émile Bergerat, premiered at the Opéra-Comique on May 9, 1892. In 1894, he succeeded Adolphe Danhauser as head of Paris’s municipal choral society.
His works included the oratorio Seven Words of Christ (1883), the choral work The Source (1898), and The Poem of Labor (1911), for tenor, choir, and orchestra. He also wrote songs, chamber music, and instrumental works, including a violin sonata (1921) and pieces for flute and piano (1927).
Jacques Charlot dedicated the piano piece Song (1910) to Chapuis, and Samuel Rousseau dedicated a set of 12 organ pieces to him. The street Auguste Chapuis Street in Paris’s 20th arrondissement was named after him in 1933. He died in Paris on December 6, 1933.