- Rodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer (
November 16 ,1766 –January 6 ,1831 ) was a Frenchviolinist , teacher, conductor, andcomposer of fortyFrench opera s.Biography
Kreutzer was born in
Versailles , and was initially taught by his father, who was a musician in the royal chapel, with later lessons fromAnton Stamitz . He became one of the foremost violin virtuosi of his day, appearing as a soloist until 1810. He was a violin professor at theParis Conservatoire from its foundation in 1795 until 1826. He was co-author of the Conservatoire's violin method withPierre Rode andPierre Baillot , and the three are considered the founding trinity of the French school of violin playing. For a time, Kreutzer was leader of the Paris Opera, and from 1817 he conducted there too.Kreutzer is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9 in
A major , Op. 47 (1803), though he never played the work, and indeed declared it unplayable. Kreutzer had made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when atVienna in the service of the French ambassador, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later King of Sweden and Norway). The sonata had originally been dedicated to the violinistGeorge Bridgetower , but he had a quarrel with the composer, who revised the dedication in favour of Kreutzer.Kreutzer died in
Geneva .Kreutzer's compositions include nineteen
violin concerto s and fortyopera s. His best known works, however, are the "42 études ou caprices " (1796), which are fundamental pedagogic studies.Facts
Kreutzer was noted for his style of bowing, his splendid tone, and theclearness of his execution. [http://www.closelinks.com/facts.php?id=2182]
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