Conservatoire de Paris, or Paris Conservatoire, has been central to the evolution of music in France and Western Europe.

Former students

• Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)
• Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911–2001)
• Joseph Bonnet (1884–1944)
• Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956)
• Philip Corner (1933–)
• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806–1826)
• George Benjamin (1960–)
• Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
• Pierre Boulez (1925–-)
• Alfred Cortot (1877–1962)
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
• Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
• Theodore Dubois (1837–1924)
• Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
• Paul Dukas (1865–1935)
• George Enescu (1881–1955)
• Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906–1972)
• Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883)
• Reynaldo Hahn
• Jacques Halévy (1799–1862)
• Henri Herz (1803–1888)
• Dr. Norman J. Hunt (1921 - 1984)
• Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
• Charles Koechlin
• Édouard Lalo (1823–1892)
• Jean Langlais (1907–1991)
• Peter-Lukas Graf (1929–)
• Jean Langlais (1907–1991)
• Henri Dutilleux (1916–)
• Alexandre Luigini (1850–1906)
• Neville Marriner (1924–)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Pierre Monteux (1875–1964)
• Ginette Neveu, (1919–1949)
• Gabriel Pierné
• Georges Prêtre (1924–)
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
• Gabrielle Réjane (1856–1920)
• Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908)
• Florent Schmitt (1870–1958)
• Jacques Thibaud (1880–1953)
• Paul Tortelier (1914–1990)
• Ricardo Viñes (1876–1943)

Former teachers

• Adolphe Adam (Composition, 1849–1856)
• Pierre Baillot (Professor of Violin)
• François Bazin (harmony)
• Joseph Bonnet (1884–1944)
• Ernest Boulanger , father of Nadia Boulanger
• William Christie (1944–)
• Theodore Dubois (Director, 1896–1905)
• Gabriel Fauré (Director, 1905)
• César Franck (Professor of Organ, 1872–1890)
• Charles Gounod (composition)
• Ernest Guiraud
• André Lafosse
• Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931)
• Jean François Lesueur (1795–1802)
• Rodolphe Kreutzer (Professor of Violin, 1795–1826)
• Jules Massenet (composition, harmony)
• Olivier Messiaen (Professor of Harmony, Composition)
• Adolphe Sax
• Pierre Sancan
• Paul Vidal
• Charles-Marie Widor (Professor of Organ, 1890)

See also

• Paris
• Conservatoire
• Prix de Rome