17/09/1767, Paris, France – 22/04/1844, same place
French composer, teacher, and writer, mostly known as a composer of operas for the Opéra-Comique. He was the music director of the Théâtre de l'Impératrice from 1807 to 1810 and the chorus master at the Paris Opera from 1810 to 1815. After Étienne Méhul's death on 18 October 1817, Berton was appointed to take over Méhul's composition class at the Paris Conservatoire on 1 January 1818, and continued to teach there until his death in 1844.
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