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Rodolphe Kreutzer (November 16, 1766 – January 6, 1831) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist, teacher, conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
, and composer
Composer

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 of forty French opera
French Opera

French opera is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen....
s.

tzer was born in Versailles
Versailles

Versailles , formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial centre....
, and was initially taught by his father, who was a musician in the royal chapel, with later lessons from Anton Stamitz
Anton Stamitz

Anton Thad?us Johann Nepomuk Stamitz was a Germany composer and violinist.Anton and his brother Carl Stamitz received their first violin instruction from their father, Johann Stamitz....
. He became one of the foremost violin virtuosi of his day, appearing as a soloist until 1810. He was a violin professor at the Paris Conservatoire from its foundation in 1795 until 1826.






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Rodolphe Kreutzer (November 16, 1766 – January 6, 1831) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist, teacher, conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
, and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 of forty French opera
French Opera

French opera is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen....
s.

Biography

Kreutzer was born in Versailles
Versailles

Versailles , formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial centre....
, and was initially taught by his father, who was a musician in the royal chapel, with later lessons from Anton Stamitz
Anton Stamitz

Anton Thad?us Johann Nepomuk Stamitz was a Germany composer and violinist.Anton and his brother Carl Stamitz received their first violin instruction from their father, Johann Stamitz....
. He became one of the foremost violin virtuosi of his day, appearing as a soloist until 1810. He was a violin professor at the Paris Conservatoire from its foundation in 1795 until 1826. He was co-author of the Conservatoire's violin method with Pierre Rode
Pierre Rode

Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode was a France violinist and composer....
 and Pierre Baillot
Pierre Baillot

Pierre Marie Fran?ois de Sales Baillot was a France violinist and composer.Baillot was born in Passy and studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti....
, 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
Académie Royale de Musique

Th??tre de l?Acad?mie Royale de Musique was the official theatre of the French theatrical institution known as the Acad?mie Royale de Musique from 1821 until 1873, and was principal venue of the Parisian opera and ballet companies until its destruction by fire in 1873....
, and from 1817 he conducted there too.

Kreutzer is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
's Violin Sonata No. 9
Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)

Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata, is a violin sonata which Ludwig van Beethoven published in 1802 in music as his Opus 47....
 in A major
A major

A major is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A , B , C? , D , E , F? , and G? . Its key signature has three sharps.Its relative key is F-sharp minor and its parallel key is A minor....
, Op. 47 (1803), though he never played the work, and indeed declared it unplayable. Kreutzer had made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when at Vienna
Vienna

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 in the service of the French ambassador, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Charles XIV John of Sweden

Charles XIV & III John , born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, later renamed Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte was King of Sweden and King of Norway from 1818 until his death....
 (later King of Sweden and Norway). The sonata had originally been dedicated to the violinist George Bridgetower
George Bridgetower

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower was a African minority in Poland-born virtuoso violinist, who lived in England for much of his life. He was born in Biala in Poland, where his father worked for Hieronimus Wincenty Radziwill, in 1778....
, but he had a quarrel with the composer, who revised the dedication in favour of Kreutzer.

Kreutzer died in Geneva
Geneva

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.

Kreutzer's compositions include nineteen violin concerto
Violin concerto

A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque music period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day....
s and forty opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s. His best known works, however, are the 42 études ou caprices
42 études ou caprices

The 42 ?tudes ou caprices are a composition and a system of violin pedagogy by Rodolphe Kreutzer.Kreutzer wrote these ?tudes in 1798; they collectively remain his best known work....
 (1796), which are fundamental pedagogic studies.

Facts

Kreutzer was noted for his style of bowing, his splendid tone, and the clearness of his execution.

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