Essay on the fingering of the violoncello and on the conduct of the bow
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Essai sur le doigté du violoncelle et sur la conduite de l'archet (Essay on the fingering of the violoncello and on the conduct of the bow) is a seminal work of cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 technique, by the French cellist and pedagogue Jean-Louis Duport
Jean-Louis Duport
Jean-Louis Duport , sometimes known as Duport the Younger to distinguish him from his older brother Jean-Pierre , was a cellist....

, dating from 1806. The French text of 175 pages discusses in detail a wide range of aspects of cello technique, and is followed by 21 Etude
Étude
An étude , is an instrumental musical composition, most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano...

s for two cellos, of various difficulty levels. The work has been translated into English and German, and is widely accepted as the most influential pedagogical work for the instrument.
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