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Jean Delphin Alard was an extremely accomplished violinist, composer and teacher. He composed many pedagogical works, but rather than dry violin studies, these were wonderfully expressive and melodic pieces in their own right.
Alard composed a dozen or more duos and collated them into 3 volumes which he named "elementary", "easy" and "brilliant". The latter volume is where this work originates.

It's a showy piece, full of fun and spirit but is technically difficult to play (so no prizes for pointing out my mistakes!)

Alard owned a Stradivarius violin, known as the Alard-Baron Knoop Stradivarius which was sold to a private collector in 1981 for $1.2m. He also gave the name to another Stradivarius - the so-called 'Messiah' Stradivarius. This violin, though purportedly crafted in 1716 looks almost new as it was left in Stradivarius's workshop and has been practically unplayed since then. As a result, the violin looks almost new leading some to question its authenticity. Even the existence of the violin was shrouded in mystery back in the 19th century, so much so that Alard exclaimed to his father-in-law, who was a violin maker and collector, that "the violin is like the Messiah of the Jews: one always expects him but he never appears." The violin was bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford where it is preserved "as a yardstick for future violin makers to learn from."