Education
Reber studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote chamber music, and set to music the new poems of the best French poets.
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Reber studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote chamber music, and set to music the new poems of the best French poets.
He became professor of harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1851 and succeeded Fromental Halévy as professor of composition in 1862, was inspector of the branch conservatories from 1871, and was elected to George Onslow"s chairman in the Académie française in 1853. His instrumental arrangement of Frédéric Chopin"s Funeral March from the Funeral March Sonata was played at the graveside during Chopin"s burial at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris on 30 October 1849. Notable students include Adolphe Danhauser and Jules Massenet.
On his death, he was succeeded as a member of the Institut by Camille Saint-Saëns.