Rodolphe Kreutzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rodolphe Kreutzer

French violinist, conductor, composer

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1766

Place of Birth: Versailles, ÃŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1831

Profession: composer, teacher, conductor, concertmaster, violinist, university teacher, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Rodolphe Kreutzer

  • Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 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 Beethoven's Violin Sonata No.
  • 9, Op.
  • 47 (1803), though he never played the work.
  • Kreutzer made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when at Vienna in the service of the French ambassador, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later King of Sweden and Norway).
  • 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.

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