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JEAN DELPHIN ALARD (1815-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 470 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN DELPHIN See also:ALARD (1815-1888)  , See also:French violinist and teacher, was See also:born at See also:Bayonne on the 8th of May 1815 . From 1827 he was a See also:pupil of F . A . Habeneck at the See also:Paris See also:Conservatoire, where he succeeded P. de Sales Baillot as See also:professor in 1843, retaining the See also:post till 1875 . His playing was full of See also:fire and point, and his compositions had a See also:great success in See also:France, while his See also:violin school had a wider See also:vogue and considerably greater value . Mention should also be made of his edition in 40 parts of a selection of violin compositions by the most eminent masters of the 18th See also:century, See also:Les Math-es classiques du violon (Schott) . See also:Alard died in Paris on the 22nd of See also:February 1888 .

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