Bernard Sarrette

Bernard Sarrette ( born November 27, 1765 in Bordeaux, † April 11, 1858 in Paris) was a French conductor and music teacher.

Sarette was in the French Revolution, a member of the National Guard and attained the rank of Captain. He led from 1789 onwards, together with François -Joseph Gossec the Corps de Musique of the Garde Nationale, the 1790 increased to more than seventy members, one of the leading wind ensembles in France at this time was. In 1792 he became head of the newly established music school of the Paris National Guard, from 1793 Institut National de Musique. That was in 1795 the famous Conservatoire de Paris show whose teaching began in the following year.

Sarrette, who for a short time was in custody in 1794, the Conservatoire initially managed as an organizer of a Board, which consisted of Gossec, Etienne- Nicolas Mehul and Cherubini, and as a director from 1800 until 1815, when it temporarily after the exile of Napoleon was closed. The remaining forty years of his life spent Sarrette withdrawn.