Théodore Ritter
Toussaint Prévost, known under the pseudonym Théodore Ritter (5 April 1840 – 6 April 1886) was a 19th-century French composer and pianist. Biography. The son of composer Eugène Prévost, he was a student of Hector Berlioz. He began his career as a baritone singer at La Monnaie in Brussels under the name "Félix," then studied the piano with Franz Liszt. He quickly became a renowned pianist and began an international career under the name "Théodore Ritter". A member of the "Société des derniers concerts de Beethoven" (1860), he undertook a concert tour in Canada and the US with  the violinist Frantz Jehin-Prume and the operatic singer Carlotta Patti in 1869–1870. Among others, he was the teacher of Isidore Philipp and Samuel Sanford. Married with the singer Alice Desgranges; his niece Gabrielle Ritter-Ciampi was also famous as a singer. A chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (1880), he is buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise (20th division) He composed numerous pieces for piano and transcriptions, as well as piano versions of "L'enfance du Christ" and "Roméo et Juliette" by Berlioz .