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Dancla

Charles Dancla (1817–1907) was a French violinist, composer, and teacher who studied with Baillot at the Paris Conservatoire and went on to teach there himself for decades, becoming one of the most influential violin pedagogues of the nineteenth century. Born when Beethoven was still alive, he outlived virtually every composer of his generation, dying at eighty-nine in Tunis, where he had gone for his health. His études, airs variés, and short pieces, of which he produced more than 130 opus numbers, remain staples of intermediate violin education, played daily by students who rarely know his name.

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