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Rodolphe Kreutzer
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Rodolphe Kreutzer | |
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 Rodolphe Kreutzer. Portrait by Carl Traugott Riedel. | |
| Born | Rodolphe Kreutzer 15 November 1766 Versailles, France |
| Died | 6 January 1831 Geneva, Switzerland |
| Burial place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Nationality |  France |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist, Composer |
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 Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 (1803), known as the Kreutzer Sonata, 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).[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.
- ^ J. Hardy (Académie de Versailles, des Yvelines et de l'Ile-de-France) (1909). "Rodolphe Kreutzer – sa jeunesse à Verailles". Revue de l'histoire de Versailles et de Seine-Et-Oise (in French). L. Bernard (Versailles); H. Champion (Paris); Bibliothèque nationale de France (online): 264 (257–284). ISSN 1158-2677.
- ^ Schwarz, Boris (1958). "Beethoven and the French Violin School". The Musical Quarterly. XLIV (4): 431–447. doi:10.1093/mq/XLIV.4.431.
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