Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin, dit L′Abbé le Fils (Agen, June 11th, 1727Paris, July 25th, 1803[1]) was a French composer and violinist. According to Sheila Nelson, "The very important work of L'Abbé le fils...put France in advance of the rest of Europe with regard to violin technique."[2]

He was an important personality in the French school of violin virtuosos from the eighteenth century. He was a composer and most memorably, author of a highly influential violin method, "the first substantial French violin method,"[3] of that time: Principes du Violon (1761). Additionally, he studied with Jean-Marie Leclair.[4][5][6]

He was the son of the cellist Philippe Saint-Sevin (l′Abbé cadet) and the nephew of Pierre Saint-Sevin (l′Abbé l′ainé).

References

  1. Musicologie
  2. Nelson, Sheila M. (2003). The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques, p.25. Courier. ISBN 9780486428536.
  3. Neumann, Frederick (1983). Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music, p.xv. Princeton. ISBN 9780691027074.
  4. Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, p.361. ISBN 9780674000841.
  5. Schoenbaum, David (2012). The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument, p.274. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393089608.
  6. Gjerdingen, Robert (2007). Music in the Galant Style, unpaginated. Oxford. ISBN 9780199886104.


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