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SARRETTE, BERNARD (1765—1858)

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SARRETTE, See also:BERNARD (1765—1858) , founder of the See also:Conservatoire See also:National de Musique et de Declamation in See also:Paris, was See also:born in See also:Bordeaux on the 27th of See also:November 1765, and died in Paris on the 1th of See also:April 1858. See also:Forty-five musicians from the See also:depot of the Gardes Fran9aises were gathered together by him after the x4th of See also:July 1789, and formed the See also:nucleus for the See also:music of the Garde Nationale. In May 1790, the See also:municipality of Paris increased the See also:body to seventy-eight musicians. When the See also:financial embarrassments of the See also:commune necessitated the suppression of the paid guard, Sarrette kept the musicians near him and obtained from the municipality, in See also:June 1792, the See also:establishment of a See also:free school of music. On the 18th of See also:Brumaire in the See also:year II. (Nov. 8, 1793) this school was converted into the Institut National de Musique by See also:decree of the See also:convention, and by the See also:law of the 16th of See also:Thermidor in the year III. (Aug. 3, 1 795) it was finally organized under the name of Conservatoire. The motives for the imprisonment of Sarrette from the 25th of See also:March to the loth of May 1794, have been a source of See also:historical controversy, nor is it possible to ascertain exactly what were his See also:political views throughout this See also:period of the See also:French Revolution. But there is no longer See also:foundation for the theory of See also:Zimmermann, his biographer, that he was imprisoned for singing aloud Cretry's See also:air, 0 See also:Richard, o mon roil For the last forty years of his See also:life Sarrette lived in retirement. The See also:protection of See also:Napoleon I. was a source of disaster to him in 1815, when the conservatoire was closed; its subsequent See also:history was watched by its founder as a See also:mere spectator from outside.

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Constant See also:Pierre, B. Sarrette et See also:les origines du Conservatoire, (Paris, 1895).

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