Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L'Abbé le Fils, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French musician
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Place of Birth: Agen, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L'Abbé le Fils
- Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin, dit L'Abbé le Fils (1727–1803) 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."He was an important personality in the French school of violin virtuosos in the eighteenth century, a composer and, most memorably, author of a highly influential violin method, "the first substantial French violin method," of that time: Principes du Violon (1761).
- He studied with Jean-Marie Leclair.He was the son of the cellist Philippe Saint-Sevin (l'Abbé cadet) and the nephew of Pierre Saint-Sevin (l'Abbé l'ainé).
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