Jean-Pierre Maurin

Jean-Pierre Maurin (14 February 1822 – 16 March 1894) was a French violinist and pedagogue.

Maurin was a student of Baillot and Habeneck at the Conservatoire de Paris.

In 1875 he succeeded to the post of Jean-Delphin Alard as a professor of violin at the same institution.

Contemporary sources attest to the significance of his performance activities:...the cofounder of the Society for the Last Quartets of Beethoven... [he] and his string quartet contributed significantly to the growing understanding in Paris of Beethoven's late works.

Richard Wagner, a severe critic, heard the Maurin Quartet in 1861 in Paris and described the performance as "most perfect.