Jean-Marie Raoul (1766–1837) was a French crown lawyer and Justice at the Paris Cour de Cassation, as well as a musician and an enthusiastic friend of art. He cultivated the violoncello, on which he distinguished himself. He was the author of a violoncello school, which appeared under the title of Méthode de violoncelle, contenant une nouvelle exposition des principes de cet instrument. Raoul composed also some sonatas and "Airs variés" for his favorite instrument. However, his efforts, supported by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, the well-known Parisian luthier, to restore the gamba to practical use were in vain.[1][2]
- ^ van der Straeten, Edmund S. J. (1915). History of the Violoncello, the Viol Da Gamba, Their Precursors and Collateral Instruments: With Biographies of All the Most Eminent Players of Every Country, Volume 1. AMS Press. pp. 287–88. ISBN 978-0-404-13100-5. OCLC 1087430693.
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- ^ Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski (1894). The Violoncello and Its History. Novello, Limited. p. 102. OCLC 5530246. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
