Rodolphe Kreutzer
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Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766[1] – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel (1810).
He is probably best known as the dedicatee of
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later King of Sweden and Norway).[2] Beethoven originally dedicated the sonata to George Bridgetower
, the violinist at its first performance, but after a quarrel he revised the dedication in favour of Kreutzer.
Biography
Kreutzer was born in
Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797, charged with copying Italian musical manuscripts and returning them to France as trophies.[5] He was a violin professor at the Conservatoire de Paris from its foundation in 1795 until 1826. He was co-author of the Conservatoire's violin method with Pierre Rode and Pierre 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. He died in Geneva[3] and is buried in Paris at the Père Lachaise Cemetery
.
Work
Kreutzer was well known for his style of bowing, his splendid tone, and the clearness of his execution. His compositions include nineteen violin concertos and forty operas. His best-known works, however, are the 42 études ou caprices (42 études or capricci, 1796) which are fundamental pedagogic studies.
References
- ISSN 1158-2677.
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- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 925.
- ^ Rodolphe Kreutzer at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Martens, Frederick H.; Prod'homme, J.-G. (October 1921). "Napoleon, Music and Musicians". The Musical Quarterly. 7 (4): 583. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rodolphe Kreutzer.
- Free scores by Rodolphe Kreutzer at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Keith Johnson. Rodolphe Kreutzer at AllMusic
- Rodolphe Kreutzer at Find a Grave
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