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Delphin Alard 1815 - 1888 |
| When Delphin Alard was ten years old, he performed Viotti's Violin Concerto No. 12 at a concert in his hometown of Bayonne. The citizens of Bayonne were so impressed by the boy's musicality that everyone chipped in and sent the boy to Paris to seek his fortune. Three years later, he was the cream of the Paris Conservatoire's crop, and only a few years later he won the praise of the greatest violinist of them all: Niccolò Paganini. By 1843, Alard was firmly established as a professor at the Conservatoire; he spent the remainder of his life alternating between teaching and concertizing. His etudes for violin are still very popular today. | |
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