# List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Music

This is a list of past and present members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in section V: Musical composition.

## Seat #1

* elected 1795: Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763–1817)
* 1817: François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1776–1834)
* 1835: Antoine Reicha (1770–1836)
* 1836: Jacques Fromental Halévy (1799–1862)
* 1854: Louis Clapisson (1808–1866)
* 1866: Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
* 1894: Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)
* 1924: Gabriel Pierné (1863–1937)
* 1938: Henri Busser (1872–1973)
* 1975: Marcel Landowski (1915–1999)
* 2000: Laurent Petitgirard (born 1950)

## Seat #2

* 1795: François-Joseph Gossec (1733–1829)
* 1829: Daniel Auber (1782–1871)
* 1872: Victor Massé (1822–1884)
* 1884: Léo Delibes (1836–1891)
* 1891: Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892)
* 1892: Émile Paladilhe (1844–1926)
* 1926: André Messager (1853–1929)
* 1929: Alfred Bachelet (1864–1944)
* 1945: Reynaldo Hahn (1875–1947)
* 1947: Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882–1955)
* 1956: Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
* 1972: Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
* 1975: Henri Sauguet (1901–1989)
* 1990: Jean Prodromidès (1927–2016)
* 2017: Bruno Mantovani (born 1974)

## Seat #3

* 1795: André Grétry (1741–1813)
* 1813: Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1773–1817)
* 1817: Charles Simon Catel (1773–1830)
* 1831: Ferdinando Paër (1772–1839)
* 1839: Gaspare Spontini (1779–1851)
* 1851: Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896)
* 1896: Charles Lenepveu (1840–1910)
* 1910: Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
* 1918: Henri Rabaud (1873–1949)
* 1950: Paul Paray (1886–1979)
* 1980: Raymond Gallois-Montbrun (1918–1994)
* 1995: Jean-Louis Florentz (1947–2004)
* 2009: Michaël Levinas (born 1949)

## Seat #4

* 1796: Grandmesnil (Jean-Baptiste Fauchard, 1737–1816)
* 1816: Henri Montan Berton (1767–1844)
* 1844: Adolphe Adam (1803–1856)
* 1856: Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)
* 1869: Félicien David (1810–1897)
* 1876: Ernest Reyer (1823–1909)
* 1909: Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
* 1925: Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934)
* 1934: Paul Dukas (1865–1935)
* 1936: Florent Schmitt (1870–1958)
* 1959: Emmanuel Bondeville (1898–1987)
* 1989: Serge Nigg (1924–2008)
* 2013: Gilbert Amy (born 1936)

## Seat #5

* 1815: Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)
* 1842: George Onslow (1784–1853)
* 1853: Napoléon Henri Reber (1807–1880)
* 1881: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
* 1922: Georges Hüe (1858–1948)
* 1949: Guy Ropartz (1864–1955)
* 1956: Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
* 1962: Georges Auric (1899–1983)
* 1983: Iannis Xenakis (1921–2001)
* 2002: François-Bernard Mâche (born 1935)

## Seat #6

* 1815: Jean-François Lesueur (1760–1834)
* 1837: Michele Carafa (1787–1872)
* 1873: François Bazin (1816–1878)
* 1878: Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
* 1912: Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956)
* 1956: Louis Aubert (1877–1968)
* 1969: Tony Aubin (1907–1981)
* 1982: Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002)
* 2005: Édith Canat de Chizy (born 1950)

## Seat #7

* 1967: Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
* 1992: Marius Constant (1925–2004)
* 2005: Charles Chaynes (1925–2016)
* 2016: Régis Campo (born 1968)

## Seat #8

* 1999: Charles Trenet (1913–2001)
* 2001: Jacques Taddei [fr] (1946–2012)
* 2013: Thierry Escaich (born 1965)

## Sources

* List of members @ the Académie des Beaux-Arts website.