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First name: Ferdinand
Last name: Lavainne
Dates: 1810-1893
Category: Quartet
Nationality: French
Opus name: Opus 80
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Peculiarities: http://imslp.org/wiki/Girod: plate 5702 (1878)
Information: All I could find was the next quote: "Berlioz then goes on to single out for special mention the composer Ferdinand Lavainne (1810-1893), whose musical career was almost entirely associated with the city of Lille, and some of whose scores Berlioz had clearly studied closely, though the performances of these works had taken place in Lille and not in Paris. Berlioz was critical of aspects of Lavainne’s style, but he nevertheless took him seriously as a musician and composer (pp. 145-6): "M. Ferdinand Lavainne had already successfully brought himself to public notice by an oratorio, The Flight to Egypt, which is remarkable for the firmness of its style and ideas that are often elevated and always free from vulgarity. The harmonic writing is careful, but in my view too studied, yet it is because of the eminent qualities which an examination of his works has revealed that we believe we must urge him strenuously to steer clear of a misguided path into which the ambition to display facility in the art of linking the most unusual modulations may have led him at the outset.