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Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier

Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier

Lithograph of Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier

Born

Antoine Benoît Tranquille Berbiguier


21 December

Caderousse

Died20 January () (aged&#;52)

Pontlevoy

Occupation(s)Flautist
Composer
Years&#;active

Antoine Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier (21 December – 20 January ) was an early 19th-century French flautist, pedagog and composer.

Biography

Still very young, Berbiguier learned to play the Western concert flute, violin and cello.

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In at the age of 23, he left the family home against the will of his parents who intended him to be a lawyer. In order to study, he joined the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris where he entered the course of flautist Johann Georg Wunderlich and that of Henri Montan Berton for harmony.[1]

Since one of his friends, Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, was a cellist, Berbiguier composed numerous duets for flute and cello.

He also wrote fifteen duets,