Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (the younger)
# Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (the younger)

Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (15 May 1797 – 22 March 1850) was a 19th-century French composer and musicologist.

## Biography

A polytechnician (1817), he had to leave the École polytechnique for health reason and became a lawyer (1823) then decided to devote himself to music. A student of Cherubini and Reicha, he became librarian at the Conservatoire de Paris (1831–1846).

He was the son of inventor Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (1764–1816).

## Works

### Compositions

He is the author of several masses, one oratorio and one opéra comique.

### Musicology

He wrote numerous texts on musical archaeology.

* 1836: De la chanson française au Moyen Age
* 1838: Des puys de palinods au Moyen Age
* 1844: Dissertation sur les instruments de musique employés au moyen âge.
* 1857: Instructions sur la musique
