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Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin, dit L′Abbé le Fils (Agen, June 11th, 1727 – Paris, July 25th, 1803) was a French composer and violinist. According to Sheila Nelson, "The very important work of L'Abbé le fils...put France in advance of the rest of Europe with regard to violin technique."

He was an important personality in the French school of violin virtuosos from the eighteenth century. He was a composer and most memorably, author of a highly influential violin method, "the first substantial French violin method," of that time: Principes du Violon (1761). Additionally, he studied with Jean-Marie Leclair.

He was the son of the cellist Philippe Saint-Sevin (l′Abbé cadet) and the nephew of Pierre Saint-Sevin (l′Abbé l′ainé).

References

1. Musicologie
2. Nelson, Sheila M. (2003). The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques, p.25. Courier. ISBN 9780486428536.
3. Neumann, Frederick (1983). Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music, p.xv. Princeton. ISBN 9780691027074.
4. Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, p.361. ISBN 9780674000841.
5. Schoenbaum, David (2012). The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument, p.274. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393089608.
6. Gjerdingen, Robert (2007). Music in the Galant Style, unpaginated. Oxford. ISBN 9780199886104.

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