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See also:BERNARD See also:SARRETTE (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
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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
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In May 1790, the See also:municipality of Paris increased the See also:body to seventy-eight musicians
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When the See also:financial embarrassments of the See also:commune necessitated the suppression of the paid guard, See also: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
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On the 18th of See also:Brumaire in the See also:year II
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(Nov
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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
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(Aug
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3, 1 795) it was finally organized under the name of Conservatoire
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The motives for the imprisonment of Sarrette from the 25th of See also: See See also:Constant See also:Pierre, B . Sarrette et See also:les origines du Conservatoire, (Paris, 1895) . |
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