( b 1798; d 1866). French educationist . A former pupil of Pierre Galin, he abandoned a legal career to perfect and propagate Galin’s method of teaching sight-singing. Cooperating with his sister Nanine and her husband Emile Chevé he produced the Galin-Paris-Chevé method . He devised the ‘langue des durées’, which forms an essential part of that teaching method....
