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The violin and its music, 1881
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1in 1798 and 1801, wherein he gives examples of famous Violin compositions from the pens of Italian, French, and German masters. His own compositions include Airs with variations, Studies, &c. He died in 1851.
3It is now necessary to notice the famous pupil of Bailliot, François Antoine Habeneck, upon whom devolved the duty of maintaining the high character belonging to the Violin classes of the Conservatoire, which his great master and his coadjutors succeeded in giving to them.
5Habeneck was born in 1781. His first lessons on the Violin were received from his father, a musician in a military band. He entered Bailliot's class in 1801, and obtained the first Violin prize in 1804. Shortly afterwards he was appointed to a sub-professorship, He succeeded Kreutzer as leader of the opera orchestra upon that Violinist's appointment to the conductorship, becoming himself conductor in 1821. In 1828 Habeneck established the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire," which he conducted for twenty years. Prior to the formation of this society, Habeneck had been conducting an orchestra formed of the best pupils of the Institution. It was here that he introduced the Symphonies of Beethoven to the French musical public, a most honourable distinction, and one which, had he achieved nothing more in relation to his art, would have secured him a notable place in the musical annals of his country.
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