Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L'Abbé le Fils
Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin, dit L′Abbé le Fils 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 in the eighteenth century, a composer and, most memorably, author of a highly influential violin method, "the first substantial French violin method," of that time: Principes du Violon. He studied with Jean-Marie Leclair.
He was the son of the cellist Philippe Saint-Sevin and the nephew of Pierre Saint-Sevin.
