I’m going to be spending the next day or so going over this method book by Louis Feuillard. I’m losing my endurance for playing my instrument and I’ve decided to just go through my music library and sight-read everything that I have.

This was the first etude book that I ever bought and I don’t really use it often with my students since I’m using the Suzuki book mostly. I think it might be good to have students get this book before getting the Schroeder Etudes book. I usually have my students start Schroeder when they get to Suzuki Book 2–so it might be good for them to start the Feuillard when they are working on Book 1 or maybe even Pre-Twinkle.

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Who was Louis Feuillard?

Louis Feuillard was the cello professor at the Paris Conservatory. He was the teacher of Paul Tortelier. Other than that, I can’t seem to find much information about him. He was a good teacher, but perhaps not a the best performer as mentioned in this All Things Strings article:

Louis Feuillard (1872–1941) formed a quartet that toured in England, but later he hardly performed—perhaps with good reason. Alfredo Casella recalled premiering Ravel’s trio with Feuillard in 1914: “I played the trio with two mediocre performers. Although we had about 20 rehearsals, they managed to achieve several blunders.” However, Feuillard was a dedicated professor at the Conservatoire; his student Paul Tortelier observed that he had an extrordinary pedagogical sense.

The book was edited by S. Patte. No idea who that is unfortunately. I don’t know why they decided to publish this book without their full names.