Rodolphe Kreutzer
Composer
1766 – 1831
Who was Rodolphe Kreutzer?
Rodolphe Kreutzer was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel.
He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47, though he never played the work, declaring it unplayable and incomprehensible. Kreutzer made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when at Vienna in the service of the French ambassador, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. 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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- Born
- Nov 15, 1766
Versailles - Also known as
- Kreutzer, Rodolphe
- Rudolph Kreutzer
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Employment
- Conservatoire de Paris
(1795 - 1826)
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Died
- Jan 6, 1831
Geneva
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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