Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier

Antoine Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier (21 December 1782 – 20 January 1835) was an early 19th-century French flautist, pedagog and composer.

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

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, seven concerts, six solos and seven great sonatas, as well as variations, fantasies, trios and romances.