Édouard Nadaud

Édouard Louis Nadaud (14 April 1862 – 13 February 1928) was a French classical violinist.

An heir of the École française du violon [fr], he taught the violin at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1900 to 1924.

He followed violin lessons at the conservatoire de Paris in Charles Dancla's class and obtained a first prize there in 1881 shared with a young American, Arma Senkrah (Harknes)[1] also a student of Charles Dancla and a young Dutchman, Louis Wolff (1865-1926), a student of Lambert Massart.

[2] Concertmaster of the Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire for eleven years,[3] he was professor of violin at the conservatory from 1 May 1900 until his death on 13 February 1928.

[5] He trained about sixty students including René Benedetti,[6] Marius Casadesus, Line Talluel,[7] Lucien Quatrochi, etc.