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Eugène Léon Vivier
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'''Eugène Léon Vivier''' (1821–1900)<ref name=codm>[[Percy A. Scholes]]. "Vivier, Eugène Léon" in ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music''. Oxford University Press, 1964.</ref> was a French [[French horn|horn player]], admired by [[Napoleon III]].
==Life==
He was born in 1821 in [[Ajaccio]], Corsica; his father was a tax collector. He moved to Paris, where he became a member of the orchestra of the Théâtre-Italien.<ref name=grandemusica>[http://bit.ly/2ZfbHH8 "Vivier, Eugene Leon"] Grande Musica. Retrieved 14 April 2019.</ref><ref name=journal>[http://bit.ly/2Ug43s1 "Vivier, the Horn Player: Practical joking which was in vogue under Napoleon III"] ''Daily Journal'' (Telluride, Colorado), May 1, 1900.</ref>
He studied under . He became a successful soloist, and played for [[Louis Philippe I]] at the [[Château d'Eu]]. On his recommendation, Vivier visited London in 1848. From 1870 he was a favourite of [[Napoleon III]], who gave him [[sinecure]]s, including an inspectorship of mines.<ref name=grandemusica/><ref name=journal/>
With a secret device, he was able to play up to four notes at once on the horn.<ref name=codm/><ref name=grandemusica/> He was known for playing practical jokes: an obituarist wrote that "in their day they were the talk of Europe".<ref name=journal/> He published in 1900 an autobiography, said to be largely fictitious, ''La Vie e les Aventures d'un Corniste''.<ref name=meyerbeer>[http://bit.ly/2Zb2NKq "Vivier, Eugène-Léon"] ''The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791–1839''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. Page 241.</ref>
Vivier died in Nice in 1900.<ref name=codm/>
==References==
==External links==
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[[Category:1821 births]]
[[Category:1900 deaths]]
[[Category:French classical horn players]]
[[Category:19th-century French musicians]]
[[Category:People from Ajaccio]]
==Life==
He was born in 1821 in [[Ajaccio]], Corsica; his father was a tax collector. He moved to Paris, where he became a member of the orchestra of the Théâtre-Italien.<ref name=grandemusica>[http://bit.ly/2ZfbHH8 "Vivier, Eugene Leon"] Grande Musica. Retrieved 14 April 2019.</ref><ref name=journal>[http://bit.ly/2Ug43s1 "Vivier, the Horn Player: Practical joking which was in vogue under Napoleon III"] ''Daily Journal'' (Telluride, Colorado), May 1, 1900.</ref>
He studied under . He became a successful soloist, and played for [[Louis Philippe I]] at the [[Château d'Eu]]. On his recommendation, Vivier visited London in 1848. From 1870 he was a favourite of [[Napoleon III]], who gave him [[sinecure]]s, including an inspectorship of mines.<ref name=grandemusica/><ref name=journal/>
With a secret device, he was able to play up to four notes at once on the horn.<ref name=codm/><ref name=grandemusica/> He was known for playing practical jokes: an obituarist wrote that "in their day they were the talk of Europe".<ref name=journal/> He published in 1900 an autobiography, said to be largely fictitious, ''La Vie e les Aventures d'un Corniste''.<ref name=meyerbeer>[http://bit.ly/2Zb2NKq "Vivier, Eugène-Léon"] ''The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791–1839''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. Page 241.</ref>
Vivier died in Nice in 1900.<ref name=codm/>
==References==
==External links==
*
[[Category:1821 births]]
[[Category:1900 deaths]]
[[Category:French classical horn players]]
[[Category:19th-century French musicians]]
[[Category:People from Ajaccio]]
http://bit.ly/2Ufi09T
