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Campardon
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L'Académie royale de musique au XVIIIe siècle, 1884, t. II, p. 27 :
"Cet artiste fut longtemps attaché en qualité de violon à l'orchestre de l'Académie royale de musique. Il avait épousé une demoiselle Mainville, connue autrefois sous le nom de Rosette et qui avait été actrice à l'Opéra-Comique."
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Grove Music Online
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NEAL ZASLAW: 'L'abbé le fils', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 9 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"L'abbé le fils [Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sévin]
(b Agen, 11 June 1727; d Paris, 25 July 1803). Composer and violinist, son of L'abbé l'aîné. A child prodigy, he won a position in the orchestra of the Comédie-Française at the age of 11 in competition with the outstanding violinists Mangean and Branche. This feat brought him to the attention of Jean-Marie Leclair, who gave him lessons between 1740 and 1742. In the latter year L'abbé joined the Paris Opéra orchestra, in which he served for 20 years; he was then denied his pension owing to his youth, even though he had served a full term. His solo début was at the Concert Spirituel in 1741, when he performed a Leclair violin duo with the 13-year-old Gaviniès. More than three dozen solo performances at those concerts until 1754 established him as one of the finest violinists of the mid-18th century. Until the Revolution he lived in semi-retirement, teaching, composing a little, but not performing in public. During the Revolution he lost his fortune, and was forced by necessity to play in the orchestra of the Théâtre de la République et des Arts until feebleness caused his retirement on a tiny pension. He died alone, poor and forgotten.
L'abbé was an accomplished composer. His sonatas, opp.1 and 8, are in the older ‘Baroque’style of Leclair, and are among the few works of the period which bear serious comparison with Leclair's sonatas. […] His symphonies, on the contrary, are true symphonies in the modern sense, and among the earliest of the genre to appear in Paris. […] The Principes du violon is a treatise of major importance, ranking just behind those of Leopold Mozart and Geminiani as a basic source of information on mid-18th-century violin playing."
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