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Jean-Pierre Maurin

Jean-Pierre Maurin

French violinist and pedagogue (1822 - 1894)

Jean-Pierre Maurin (14 February 1822 – 16 March 1894) was a French violinist and pedagogue.[1]

Career

Maurin was a student of Baillot and Habeneck at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1875 he succeeded to the post of Jean-Delphin Alard as a professor of violin at the same institution. Contemporary sources attest to the significance of his performance activities:

...the cofounder of the Society for the Last Quartets of Beethoven... [he] and his string quartet contributed significantly to the growing understanding in Paris of Beethoven's late works. Richard Wagner, a severe critic, heard the Maurin Quartet in 1861 in Paris and described the performance as "most perfect."[2]

The most famous of his pupils was Lucien Capet, who was to become the leader of the Capet Quartet and the teacher of Ivan Galamian.

References

  1. [1]
    Riemann, Hugo (1908). Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music. Theo. Presser.
  2. [2]
    Schwarz, Boris (1983). Great Masters of the Violin: From Corelli and Vivaldi to Stern, Zukerman, and Perlman. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780671225988.
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