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LOUIS ANTOINE JULLIEN (1812-186o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 552 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:ANTOINE See also:JULLIEN (1812-186o)  , musical conductor, was See also:born at Sisteron, Basses Alpes, See also:France, on the 23rd of See also:April 1812, and studied at the See also:Paris See also:conservatoire . His fondness for the lightest forms of See also:music cost him his position in the school. and after conducting the See also:band of the Jardin Turc he was compelled to leave Paris to See also:escape his creditors, and came to See also:London, where he formed a See also:good See also:orchestra and established See also:promenade concerts . Subsequently he travelled to See also:Scotland, See also:Ireland and See also:America with his orchestra . For many years he was a See also:familiar figure in the• See also:world of popular music in See also:England, and his portly See also:form with its gorgeous waistcoats occurs very often in the See also:early volumes of See also:Punch . He brought out an See also:opera, Pietro it Grande, at Covent See also:Garden (1852) on a See also:scale of magnificence that ruined him, for the piece was a See also:complete failure . He was in America until 1854, when he returned to London for a See also:short See also:time; ultimately he went back to Paris, where, in 1859, he was arrested for See also:debt and put into See also:prison . He lost his See also:reason soon afterwards, and died on the 14th of See also:March 186o .

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