Louis Antoine Jullien (1812–1860)
Arguably, nobody did more to encourage the habit of concert-going amongst the working and lower middle classes than the conductor Louis Jullien.
Born in France in 1812, he came to England in 1840, where he established a series of promenade concerts at Drury Lane. His jewelled baton would be handed from a silver tray into his white gloves by a servant; he might seize an instrument from a performer and add to the climax of a performance; he once used four brass bands in Beethoven's Fifth.
His orchestra contained some outstanding soloists, notably the cornet player Herr Koenig, and early generations of brass bandsmen travelled considerable distances to hear and learn from Jullien and his men.
Extract from: Popular music in England 1840-1914