Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L'Abbé le Fils explained

Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin, dit L′Abbé le Fils (Agen, June 11th, 1727 – Paris, 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).

Notes and References

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