Mazas, Jacques-Féréol
Mazas, Jacques-Féréol
Mazas, Jacques-Féréol, French violinist, teacher, and composer; b. Lavaur, Tarn, Sept. 23, 1782; d. Bordeaux, Aug. 25, 1849. He was a pupil of Baillot at the Paris Cons., winning 1st prize as violinist (1805). He then played in the orch. of the Italian Opera in Paris, and toured Europe (1811–27). He was a teacher in Orléans (from 1831), and director of a music school in Cambrai (1837–41). He spent the last years of his life in Bordeaux. He wrote a method for violin (new ed. by J. Hfimaly) and numerous valuable studies; also a method for viola, concertos, string quartets, trios, violin duets, fantasias, variations, romances, etc. He composed 3 operas, one of which, Le Kiosque, was performed in Paris in 1842. A set of 6 études was pubi, in a new ed. by Hubay
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