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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Frederic Blasius, Chretien Urhan, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, Benjamin Godard, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francois Francoeur, Lucien Capet, Henri Marteau, Jules Garcin, Christian Ferras, Adolphe Deloffre, Ginette Neveu, Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon, Albert Vizentini, Robert Soetens, Edouard Lalo, Pierre Baillot, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, Sandor Vegh, Zino Francescatti, Pierre Rode, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Francois Antoine Habeneck, Alexandre Brussilovsky, Jacques Thibaud, Jean-Delphin Alard, Horace Poussard, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jacques Israelievitch, Philippe Honore, Eugene Goossens, fils, Daniel Guilet, Jacques Fereol Mazas, Suzanne Chaigneau, Charles Dancla, Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, Henri Montan Berton, Theophile Tilmant, Pierre Amoyal, Emile Sauret, Jules Boucherit, August Duranowski, Helene Schmitt, Pierre-Francisque Caroubel. Excerpt: Frederic Blasius (24 April 1758, Lauterbourg - 1829, Versailles) was a French violinist, clarinetist, conductor, and composer. Born Matthaus (French: Matthieu, Mathieu) Blasius, he used Frederic as his pen name on his publications in Paris. Blasius was born in Lauterbourg, a town in the far north-west corner of France on the Rhineland border of Alsace. This frontier town had been fortified in the late 17th century by Louis XIV and had a large military presence, including many musicians. Both of his parents were German. His mother, a member of the Bugard family, was originally from the South Rhineland town of Schaidt, and his father, Johann Michael Blasius, was from Rastatt in Baden. His father earned his living primarily as a master tailor, but was also a musician and gave his son his first lessons. The young Blasius also received lessons from military musicians; a man referred to as Herr Stadt; and his two older brothers: Johann Peter (French: Pierre; born...
