Charles Joseph Lebouc (22 December 1822 – 6 March 1893) was a French

cellist The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 ...

and composer.

Career

Born in

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, Lebouc attended the

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where he studied under Olive Charlier Vaslin (1794–1889) and Louis Norblin, and later became a cello professor. He played chamber music. He also composed some pieces for the cello with piano accompaniment and wrote a ''Méthode complète et pratique de cioloncelle''. He won a first prize at the Conservatoire in 1842 when he was a student of

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, and a first prize in harmony in 1844 as a student of

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. In later years he organised annual private concerts on Shrove Tuesday, and on one of these occasions, on 9 March 1886, the first performance of the ''

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'' by Saint-Saëns was given, in which Lebouc played the well-known cello solo, ''The Swan''. Lebouc died in

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References

1822 births 1893 deaths 19th-century classical composers Conservatoire de Paris alumni French classical cellists French male classical composers French Romantic composers Musicians from Besançon Pupils of Fromental Halévy 19th-century French male musicians 20th-century cellists {{Cellist-stub