Pierre Saint-Sevin
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (April 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Pierre Saint-Sevin, dit l'Abbé l'ainé (1 May 1695 in Bordeaux – May 1768 in Paris) was a French cellist and composer.
Along with his brother Philippe Saint-Sevin, he was a music-master of the parish church of Agen in Aquitaine early in the eighteenth century. It is doubtful that he was actually an ordained priest, or merely in consequence of his office had to wear the ecclesiastical dress, but he received the name l'Abbé l'ainé, or simply l'Abbé.
Later, he and his brother gave up their connection with the church and went to Paris, where they obtained engagements at the Grand Opera. They were both excellent players, but Philippe seems to have been the more celebrated of the two.
He is the uncle of the violinist Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin, dit L'Abbé le Fils.
Notes
This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (January 2016) |
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Grove, George, ed. (1900). . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan and Company.
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Biography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
- Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2016
- All articles lacking in-text citations
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Dictionary of Music and Musicians with a vb parameter
- Articles incorporating text from A Dictionary of Music and Musicians with Wikisource reference
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- 1695 births
- 1768 deaths
- Musicians from Bordeaux
- French Baroque composers
- French classical cellists
- French classical composers
- French male classical composers
- 18th-century classical composers
- 18th-century French composers
- 18th-century French male musicians
- All stub articles
- French composer stubs