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Nicolas-Joseph Platel

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• ... that Nicolas-Joseph Platel's playing inspired his future student Alexandre Batta to switch from the violin to the cello?

• Source: "Alexandre Batta first learned the violin but one day, hearing Platel play the cello, he developed a passion for this instrument and abandoned one for the other." (p. 199) "Once under Platel's direction it was easy to make rapid progress because lessons were never given with more care, more precision, more method, etc." (p. 200)

• ALT1: ... that French cellist Nicolas-Joseph Platel is considered the founder of the Belgian school of cello playing? Source: "Nicolas-Joseph Platel, was born in Versailles" "He was regarded as the founder of the Belgian school of cello playing"
• ALT2: ... that Nicolas-Joseph Platel left Paris to go on a concert tour but ended up staying in Quimper for two years after making a friend there? Source: "In 1805 he left Paris in order to undertake a concert tour, but at Quimper, where he made the acquaintance of a cello playing dilettante, he remained quite two years"
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AsYouWish13 (talk) 03:21, 27 November 2024 (UTC).