title: List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Music
text: # 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.
  