Pianist, composer, conductor teacher and French hornist, was a prize winning graduate of the Paris Conservatoire. Étienne was chosen to be the permanent conductor of the third New York Philharmonic Society in 1824.   On December 14, 1824 Étienne conducted “ a lengthy and varied program of works by Rossini, Boieldieu (his teacher at the Paris Conservatoire), Storace, Bishop, and Berton; notably, they concluded with one of the earliest know performances in America of a movement from a Beethoven symphony – the Second, in D major.”
On the next concert, April 21, 1825, the Philharmonic repeated the Beethoven movement and also gave the New York premiere of Rossini’s Overture to La Gazza ladra.
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. I, xl-
As conductor: xli, xliv, lii, 158, 237n, 255, 271, 320, 482
As pianist: 17,19,49,54, 96, 98, 187n, 219,272, 275, 327, 355, 386n, 482
Organizes chamber music concerts: 56
Professional activities: 309n, 351, 449, 610]
[III, 94-95,n] not horn related
[Lawrence, Strong on Music, vol. III,94-95n]