PIERRE FRANCOIS OLIVIER AUBERT brought out a violoncello method. He received his first musical instruction in the "maitrise" of his native town, but he learned cello playing by himself, without any other assistance. After,his arrival in Paris, he found a place in the orchestra of the "Opera Comique," to which he belonged for twenty-five years. His cello method was, as Fetis remarks, the first good instruction book which followed after the insufficient preparatory works by Cupis and Tillibre.