Louis-Barthélémy Pradher

Louis-Barthélémy Pradher (16 December 1782 – 19 October 1843) was a French composer, pianist and music educator.

He received his first music lessons from his father and Louis Gobert at the École royale de musique.

From 1797, he took lessons at the Conservatoire de Paris, piano with Gobert and harmony with Henri Montan Berton, until the completion of his training in 1798.

[1] In 1802, he took musical composition courses with Étienne-Nicolas Méhul and in 1802 took over the piano class of Louis Emmanuel Jadin at the Paris Conservatoire and, from 1803, he was full professor at the succession of François-Adrien Boieldieu.

Pradher composed several opéras-comiques, whose moderate success quickly declined due to the poor quality of the booklets.