He had plenty of money and, as he knew what the financial situation was, he went to the rehearsals and corrupted the artists.

For the most part they were young people in needy circumstances and could not refuse his attractive propositions.

He killed Seghers's society and built on its ruins the Societe des Jeunes Artistes, which later became the Concerts Populaires.
Pasdeloup was sincerely fond of music but he was a very ordinary musician.

He had little of Seghers's feeling and profound comprehension of the art.

In Seghers's hands the popular concerts would have become an admirable undertaking, but Pasdeloup, in spite of his zeal and skill, was able to give them only a superficial and deceptive brilliancy.
Besides, Seghers would have worked for the development of the French school whom Pasdeloup, with but few exceptions, kept under a bushel until 1870.