Antoine Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier (21 December 1782 – 20 January 1835) was an early 19th-century French flautist, pedagog and composer.Still very young, Berbiguier learned to play the Western concert flute, violin and cello. In 1805 at the age of 23, he left the family home against the will of his parents who intended him to be a lawyer. In order to study, he joined the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris where he entered the course of flautist Johann Georg Wunderlich and that of Henri Montan Berton for harmony.

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