“Since its establishment by legislative decree of August 3, 1795, the Paris Conservatoire has functioned as the gateway to the upper echelons of classical music in France. A student graduated on attaining a First Prize, or earlier if satisfied with a lower grade.
Students played in public examinations called Concours (competitions), which included a set piece and accompanied sight-reading, and were awarded grades designated First Prize (Premier prix), Second Prize, and First or Second Certificate of Merit (Accessit). Rather than receiving individual tuition, instrumentalists were taught in a class, to which entrance was by competition. The Paris Conservatoire dominated musical education in France, and in much of the developed world, from about 1860-1950. Paris Conservatory The Paris Conservatory in the Nineteenth Century
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