Revolutionary French violin pedagogue and composer Lucien Capet was born on this day in 1873.
He served a long-term teaching position at the Société Sainte-Cécile de Bordeaux – during which time he researched, developed and published his authoritative Superior Bowing Technique treatise.
Professor Capet’s notable students included two of the most influential violin educators of all time – Jascha Brodsky and Ivan Galamian.
Jascha Brodsky‘s students include: Leila Josefowicz, Joey Corpus, Hilary Hahn and Judith Ingolfsson.
Ivan Galamian’s students include: Michael Rabin, Itzhak Perlman, Sally Thomas, Pinchas Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung, Glenn Dicterow, David Nadien, Erick Friedman, Jaime Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt, Charles Castleman, Miriam Fried, James Buswell, Sergiu Luca, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Eugene Fodor, Berl Senofsky and Dong-Suk Kang.
Lucien Capet and Superior Bowing Technique |BOOK|
History and Comparison
Lucien Capet & Kelley M. Johnson
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Alfred Music
