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	César Franck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His father had ambitions for him to become a concert pianist, and he studied at the conservatoire in Liège before going to the Paris Conservatoire in 1837.
		Franck was a fine pianist, and made concert tours in his early years, but made his living at the organ, becoming organist of Sainte-Clotilde in 1858, where he remained until his death.
		Franck died in 1890 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/C%E9sar_Franck (353 words)

	Berlioz in Paris Conservatoire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was in the library of the Conservatoire that the young Berlioz, soon after his arrival in Paris in November 1821, started to study and copy the scores of Gluck and Spontini, then from 1828 onwards those of Beethoven as well.
		It was in the concert hall of the Conservatoire that he gave his first orchestral concerts, on 26 May 1828 and 1 November 1829; the concert in 1828 included the first performances of his Waverley and Francs-Juges overtures.
		The hall of the Conservatoire, famous in its time for its acoustic, unlike that of the overlarge Opéra (it was known as the Stradivarius of concert halls), is small in size and had in Berlioz's time a seating capacity of only about 1000.
	www.hberlioz.com /Paris/BPConservatoire.html (977 words)

	Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
		Benoît Fromanger was born in Paris and studied the flute at the CNR Versailles (Conservatoire National de Region).
		He continued to study at the CNSM in Paris (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique) and also in 1982 was awarded two first prizes, for flute in the class of Alain Marion, and for chamber music in the class of Maurice Bourgue.
		In 1978 he was elected to teaching positions at various institutions in the environs of Paris, in 1986 at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris under the leadership of P. Petit, in 1991 at the ENM in Romainville (Ecole Nationale de Musique) and in 1995 at the Conservatoire du 20.
	www.br-online.de /kultur-szene/klassik_e/pages/so/besetzung/fromanger.html (372 words)

	The Paris Conservatoire Concours Oboe Solos: The Gillet Years (1882-1919) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paris became famous as an important center of brilliant wind instrument execution, and this undoubtedly established the woodwind quintet as we know it; Anton Reicha’s twenty-four quintets were inspired by a group of Paris-based woodwind virtuosi which included the oboist Gustave Vogt.
		Vogt was appointed to a type of assistant or joint professorship at the Conservatoire in 1802,14 and in 1816 he succeeded to the senior position which he held until 1853.
		At the Paris Conservatoire he studied piano with François Marmontel (teacher of Bizet, Debussy, and d’Indy), organ with François Benoist (Chef du chant at the Opéra), and counterpoint with Halévy.
	idrs.colorado.edu /publications/journal/jnl24/paris.html (3428 words)

	Marcel Dupré - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He started at the Paris Conservatoire in 1904, and studied under Charles-Marie Widor,, Louis Vierne and.
		Dupré was director of the Fontainebleau Conservatoire from 1947 to 1954 and of the Paris Conservatoire from 1954 to 1956.
		As a composer he produced a wide-ranging oeuvre of 65 opus numbers, and he also taught two generations of world-famous organists such as Olivier Messiaen, Jehan Alain, Pierre Cochereau,,, Virgil Fox,,,,,, Jeanne Demessieux and Jean Langlais.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Marcel_Dupr%E9 (352 words)

	Hector Berlioz
		From Paris, where he had been sent to complete his medical studies, he at last made known to his father the unalterable decision of devoting himself entirely to art, the answer to which confession was the withdrawal of all further pecuniary assistance.
		In 1825 he left the Conservatoire, and began a course of self-education, founded chiefly on the works of Beethoven, Gluck, Weber and other German masters.
		Niccolo Paganini on that occasion spoke to Berlioz the memorable words: "Vous commencez par où les autres ont fini." Miss Smithson, who also was present on the occasion, consented to become the wife of her ardent lover in 1833.
	www.nndb.com /people/847/000024775 (1305 words)

	Charles Dancla : His life & times
		After a Paris concert (1849) in which his 4th quartet in Bflat was performed, Henri Blanchard wrote in his review " He is still a good composer even though circumstances have forced him to become a man of letters ".
		Dancla returned to Paris to work as an official in the postal administration, and was finally offered a position at the Conservatoire in 1855.
		She studied at the Conservatoire and won a premier prix in solfège in 1837.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~leonid/charles_dancla_history.htm (1580 words)

	JACQUES FRANCOIS FROMENTAL HALEVY - LoveToKnow Article on JACQUES FRANCOIS FROMENTAL HALEVY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berton and Cherubini, and in 1819 gained the grand prix de Rome with his cantata Herminie.
		He was professor at the Conservatoire from 1827 till his deathsome of the most successful amongst the younger composers in France, such as Gounod, Victor Masse and Georges Bizet, the author of Carmen, being amongst his pupils.
		He was maestro al cembalo at the Thtre Italien from 1827 to 1829; then director of singing at the Opera House in Paris until 1845, and in 1836 he succeeded Reicha at the Institut de France.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HALEVY_JACQUES_FRANCOIS_FROMENTAL.htm (409 words)

	MAUREL, VICTOR - LoveToKnow Article on MAUREL, VICTOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1740 Maupertuis went to Berlin on the invitation of the king of Prussia, and took part in the battle of Mollwitz, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians.
		On his release he returned to Berlin, and thence to Paris, where he was elected director of the Academy of Sciences in 1742, and in the following year was admitted into the Academy.
		He made his debut in opera at Paris in 1868, and in London in 1873, and from that time onwards his admirable acting and vocal method established his reputation as one of the finest of operatic baritones.
	98.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAUREL_VICTOR.htm (741 words)

	Berlioz in Paris - The Hector Berlioz Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paris was the unavoidable centre of his activities through most of his life, from his arrival there as a young medical student in 1821 until his death in 1869.
		Berliozians who visit Paris nowadays may well be struck by the almost complete absence of reference to the composer in any of the streets and places in Paris.
		Paris Opéra Le Peletier [no longer extant] The Paris Opéra, like the Conservatoire, played a major part in Berlioz's career from his earliest days in the capital city in November 1821, though ultimately an unhappy one.
	www.hberlioz.com /Paris/BerliozParis.html (2723 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When describing the 19th-century French violoncello school, one feature that must be mentioned was its exceptional pedagogical fruitfulness, which manifested itself in the uninterrupted "teacher-pupil" chain resulting in the evolution of traditions and the assertion of continuity, as well as in the abundance of the well-elaborated cello methods aids-methods and etudes-which were used extensively.
		The principles of performance and methodics contained in the schools, as well as concertos and sonatas of the French cellists of the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century give an idea of the characteristic features of the art of the cello in France which had formed by the time.
		It was published in 1826 and developed the principles of the Paris Conservatoire Method, in whose compiling Baudiot had assisted at the beginning of his teaching career.
	www.celloheaven.com /bios/parisian/parisian.htm (2122 words)

	Cello Playing in 19th Century France, Belgium and Holland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ARNAUD DANCLA, born January 1, 1820, at Bagneres-de- Bigorre, was likewise Norblin's pupil at the Paris Conservatoire.
		Platel made him his assistant in the Conservatoire, and at the same time he was placed in the opera orchestra, to which he belonged for three years, During this period, however, he did not succeed in gaining from his fellow countrymen the appreciation which he soon after gained in Paris.
		Grutzmacher, in Dresden; Joseph Servais, in Brussels; and Leon Jacquard, in Paris.
	www.celloheaven.com /wasiel/19fbh.htm (6924 words)

	Charles Dancla : His life & times
		Société des Concerts at the Paris Conservatoire as early as 1834, and he was its leading violinist from 1841 to 1863, appearing also as soloist.
		Teacher at the Paris Conservatoire during the second half of the 19th Century.
		She was then selected (out of 80 applicants) for a place at the Paris Conservatoire to study with Charles Dancla.
	www.wps.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /charles_dancla_history.htm (1580 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire in 1902, receiving First Prize for piano in 1905, for organ and improvisation in 1907, and for fugue in 1909.
		In 1906 he was appointed Widor's assistant at the church of St Sulpice, in Paris, and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1914 for his cantata Psyché.
		In 1926 he was appointed Professor of Organ at the Paris Conservatoire, succeeding Eugené Gigout, and later served from 1954 to 1956 as Director of the Conservatoire.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Dupre,%20Marcel (281 words)

	criticaldance.com: Paris Conservatoire's exchange with Hong Kong Academy
		The Paris Conservatoire, France's top music and dance academy, was originally founded in 1795 as a music school, and classical ballet classes only commenced in 1925 for women and 1947 for men.
		The dance department is a state institution offering five years of secondary education for a total of 140 students aged between 13 and 21, who are separated into the classical stream and the contemporary stream.
		Students in the first two years do dance training in the Conservatoire in the morning, followed by academic studies in a nearby secondary school in the afternoon; while the third and fourth year students do academic studies first and then dance studies later in the day.
	www.criticaldance.com /features/2001/parisconservatoire.html (730 words)

	Let's Go Travel Guides \| Discover Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Growth and adaptation are certainly not unique to Paris among cities and civilizations.
		What Paris does with singular beauty, however, is integrate the new into the fabric of the old, devoting equal reverence and energy to the two.
		Paris is everything that one expects and at the same time a constant surprise; a living monument to the past and a city full of the life of the present.
	www.letsgo.com /PAR/03-Sights-110 (293 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As a result of the Waterloo War in 1815, his training at the Paris Conservatoire was delayed, so it was at the advanced age of 28 that he won the violin prize there.
		Bellon went on to play in many popular Paris orchestras of his day, and was also the inventor of a type of mute for the violin and cello, which he patented, and examples of which are still kept in the Paris Conservatoire Museum.
		He became the leader of the Musard Orchestra in Paris and it was probably drawing on the brass section of this orchestra that he was able to form an ensemble to perform his Quintets.
	www.karadar.com /dictionary/bellon.html (191 words)

	George ENESCO and Céliny CHAILLEY- RICHEZ
		Her mother, Léonie, was the sister of Félix Galle, conductor at the Théâtre des Variétés, whose daughter Yvonne Gall, was a singer in the Paris Opera.
		Her success was such that she was admitted to the Paris Conservatory a year later, her mother leaving her husband in Lille in order to support and supervise her daughter's musical advancement.
		After the War, Enesco returned to Paris, his roots with his beloved Roumania having been unceremoniously severed when in 1948 the communist regime confiscated his and his wife's Bucharest Residence (though it has since been restored to its former glory as the National Enesco Museum).
	www.baroquemusic.org /chailleyenesco.html (1648 words)

	FRIEDRICH WILHELM KALKBRENNER - LoveToKnow Article on FRIEDRICH WILHELM KALKBRENNER
		(1784-1849), German pianist and composer, son of Christian Kalkbrenner (1755-1806), a Jewish musician of Cassel, was educated at the Paris Conservatoire, and soon began to play in public.
		From 1814 to 1823 he was well known as a brilliant performer and a successful teacher in London, and then settled in Paris, dying at Enghien, near there, in 1849.
		He became a member of the Paris piano-manufacturing firm of PleyeI and Co., and made a fortune by his business and his art combined.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KA/KALKBRENNER_FRIEDRICH_WILHELM.htm (127 words)

	International Clarinet Association - ClarinetFest Archives
		The woodwind quintet as a genre was born at the hands of Antoine Reicha, and the Conservatoire soon appointed such virtuosi as the oboist Gustave Vogt, the clarinetist Hyacinthe Klosé and the cornettist Jean-Baptiste Arban.
		So bent upon avoiding nepotism was the Conservatoire that it forbade a professor if he or she and given the candidate even one private lesson in any capacity during the preceding year.
		That was virtually unique in Europe, although at the Conservatoire women attended different classes, faced less rigorous courses and Concours, and anticipated a lesser professional status.
	www.clarinet.org /fests/2001/Briscoe.asp (2894 words)

	Henri Dutilleux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was born in Angers, and studied music at the Paris Conservatoire from 1933 to 1938.
		He was appointed professor at the Paris Conservatoire in 1970.
		Dutilleux is one of the best known French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in a style distinctly his own, but considered to be in the same tradition as Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Albert Roussel and others.
	www.wikiverse.org /henri-dutilleux (295 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Georges Bizet \| PBS
		He was trained by his parents, who were musical, and admitted to the Paris Conservatoire just before his tenth birthday.
		Shortly after his return to Paris, in September 1861, his mother died; the composer consoled himself with his parents maid, by whom he had a son in June 1862.
		He rejected teaching at the Conservatoire and the temptation to become a concert pianist, and completed his obligations under the terms of the Prix de Rome.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/bizet.html (551 words)

	flutehistory.com: Jean-Louis Tulou (1786-1865)
		Tulou was Professor of Flute at the Paris Conservatoire from 1829 to 1856.
		He dominated flute-playing in Paris during the 1830s and 40s because of his superb playing, his Conservatoire post, and his connections in the instrument-making business.
		In 1839-40 Tulou took part in an examination of Boehm's ring-key flute at the Paris Conservatoire, but it was not adopted at that institute largely because of his opposition.
	www.flutehistory.com /Players/Jean-Louis_Tulou/index.php3 (152 words)

	Franchomme, Auguste (-Joseph), Cellist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Franchomme studied at the Lille Conservatory with Mas and Pierre Baumann, then with Levasseur and Norblin at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the premier prix in his first year.
		In 1846 he was succeeded Norblin as first cello professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
		Franchomme formed a close friendship with Mendelssohn during Mendelssohn¹s visit to Paris in 1831.
	www.cello.org /cnc/franch.htm (260 words)

	Francis Casadesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		his studies at the conservatoire of Paris, he was taught by prestigious musicians like Alfred Lavignac and César Franck.
		1921, he founded and directed the American conservatoire of Fontainebleau, which formed many hig-level professional musicians and was later hired as a conductor for the Radio.
		A few years before his death (on 27 June 1954), he was honoured on the occasion of his 84th birthday (Paris, 1951), with a concert that featured 25 Casadesus as musicians.
	www.casadesus.com /english/famille/Francis_F.html (291 words)

	Georges ENESCO conducts J.S. BACH - Piano Concertos on 4 CDs available separately. Historic recordings.
		His "second life" in Paris connected him with the world of western European culture, a world in which he was loved and respected as a musician and a teacher.
		Returning to Paris, it was perhaps his old friends who revived his spirits and encouraged him to new endeavors.
		For the multiple-keyboard concertos, Mme Chailley-Richez was joined by Jean-Jacques Painchaud, Professor of Piano at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, near Paris, and Françoise le Gonidec, multiple prize winner at the Paris Conservatoire National Supéieur de Musique, and pupil of Nadia Boulanger and Dinu Lipatti.
	www.baroquecds.com /9047Web.html (566 words)

	Berlioz, (Louis) Hector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abandoning medicine, he studied music from 1823 to 1825 at the Paris Conservatoire under the French composer Jean François Le Sueur (1760–1837) and the Czech composer Anton Reicha (1770–1836).
		He became a librarian at the Paris Conservatoire in 1838, toured the Continent and Great Britain several times as a conductor between 1842 and 1854, and from 1835 to 1863 wrote musical criticism for the periodical Journal des Débats.
		Berlioz’s position in 19th-century music is that of a seminal figure, directly influencing symphonic form and the use of the orchestra as well as musical aesthetics; to many he exemplifies the romantic image of the composer as artist.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/mainbiographies/B/Berlioz/e1.html (356 words)

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