Editing Daniel Auber (section)

===Institut and Conservatoire===
[[File:Le-cheval-de-bronze-Auber-poster.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|''[[Le cheval de bronze|Le Cheval de bronze]]'', 1835|alt=Young woman in oriental costume riding bareback and sidesaddle on a flying bronze horse]]
In 1829 Auber was elected as one of the six members of the [[Académie des Beaux-Arts]] of the [[Institut de France]] in succession to [[François-Joseph Gossec]], joining the joint doyens, Cherubini and [[Jean-François Le Sueur]], and their colleagues [[Henri-Montan Berton|Henri Berton]], [[François-Adrien Boieldieu]] and [[Charles-Simon Catel|Charles Catel]].<ref name=institut>[https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/academiciens-depuis-1795?field_chair_target_id=106&field_election_date_value=&field_death_date_value=&year= " Académiciens depuis 1795"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214621/https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/academiciens-depuis-1795?field_chair_target_id=106&field_election_date_value=&field_death_date_value=&year= |date=2 June 2021 }}, Académie des Beaux-Arts. Retrieved 30 May 2021</ref> During his 42 years as a member he was joined by composers including [[Adolphe Adam]], [[Hector Berlioz]], [[Charles Gounod]] and [[Ambroise Thomas]].<ref name=institut/> Under the government of [[Louis Philippe I|King Louis-Philippe]], Auber was appointed director of court concerts in 1839, and, when Cherubini retired in 1842, director of the Conservatoire.<ref name=m70>Malherbe, p. 70</ref> Schneider writes that in the latter post Auber's term of office was marked by:
{{blockindent|special emphasis on vocal tuition, the separation of classes for male and female singers, provision of boarding accommodation for students, performances of opera in costume, and performances in the Conservatoire of music-theatre works by winners of the [[Prix de Rome]].<ref name=grove/>|}}
In the 1830s Auber wrote twelve operas with Scribe, half of them opéras comiques, and half more serious works for the Opéra: ''Le Dieu et la bayadère'' (1830), ''Le Philtre'' (1831), ''Le Serment ou les Faux monnayeurs'' (1832), ''[[Gustave III (Auber)|Gustave III ou le Bal masqué]]'' (1833), ''[[Le cheval de bronze|Le Cheval de bronze]]'' (1835) and ''[[Le lac des fées|Le Lac des fées]]'' (1839).{{refn|Respectively, in English, The God and the Dancing Girl, The Potion, The Oath or the Counterfeiters, Gustave III or the Masked Ball, The Bronze Horse and the Fairy Lake.|group=n}}