Petite piece de concours charles dancla biography

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( b.Bagnères de Bigorre, 19 Dec 1817 d. Tunis, 10 Nov 1907 )

Charles Dancla was a Violinist, Composer and Teacher, and the most celebrated member of his family.

He first started the violin locally with a teacher named Dussert, but soon, at the age of 9 was given an opportunity to play to Rode, then living in retirement in Bordeaux.

Petite piece de concours charles dancla biography

Rode was so impressed by his playing and sight reading that he gave Dancla letters of introduction to Baillot, Cherubini ( then director of the Paris Conservatoire ) and Kreutzer.

From 1828 - 40 Dancla studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Paul Guérin and Baillot, winning a premier prix ( first prize ) in 1833 ; he then studied counterpoint and fugue with Halévy and composition with Berton.

Some of the pupils studying with Dancla were Gounod, Bousquet and César Franck. Dancla, while still a student of composition, would often play the violin in Paris Theatre Orchestras, and so