François Devienne (January 31, 1759 - September 5, 1803) was a French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory.

François Devienne was innate inside Joinville (Haute-Marne), as the youngest of xiv babies of a saddlemaker. Fallowing getting his 1st musical step by step instruction when a choirboy inside his hometown, he was swimming inside various Parisian Ensembles as soloist & orchestra streaming video player. He exposed a flute sustaining Félix Rault and in 1780 he joined the family of Cardinal de Rohan. He move inside Paris as a flautist, bassoonist & composer, & played bassoon at the Paris Opera. He wrote successful operas in the 1790s, including Les visitandines (1792) which brought him much profits.

He was likewise the member of the 'Military Band of the French Guard' around which he was given a rank of sergeant sustaining a duty of teaching them of his colleagues in the concert band in its Loose School of Music. Fallowing a Radical time period, whilst Absolutely free! School became a National Institute of Music, late hired when a Paris Conservatory in 1795, François Devienne was appointed an administrator and flute prof. He wrote an significant Flute School 'Méthodiamond state de Flûte Théroretique et Pratique' (1793), which was reprinted several days & did very much to improve a level of French wind music in the late 18th century. Such as several more musicians, he joined a freemasons and 'Concerts de la Loge Olympique' orchestra.

Devienne died at the sanatorium around Charentin touching Paris on September Five, 1803, probably of overworking.

His output is c. 300 implemental works that come mostly written for wind instruments. There are the Xii of flute concertos, sinfonias for wood, quartets & trios for different ensembles, 12 operas & Quadruplet bassoon concertos, around an elegant melodic style.