Composer
Rodolphe Kreutzer
French violinist, conductor, composer (1766-1831)
1766–1831
28 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1766
- Died
- 1831
- Birthplace
- Versailles
- Place of death
- Geneva
- Citizenship / historical state
- France
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Classical
Biography
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), 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). 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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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- conductor; composer; violinist; musicologist; music educator; university teacher; concertmaster; musician
- Teachers
- Anton Stamitz
- Career institutions / employers
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Recorded memberships
- Commission des Sciences et des Arts
- Instruments played
- violin
- Genres
- opera
- Movements
- classical music
- Notable works
- 42 études ou caprices
- Languages used
- French
- VIAF ID
- 54250851
- ISNI
- 0000000122801181
- GND ID
- 116533676
- Library of Congress ID
- n86002052
- MusicBrainz ID
- c995316e-09c1-4875-a98e-041e9997d8a5
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- violin, Piano, Cello, Orchestra, Viola
- Genres represented
- Classical
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 54250851. Portrait: Carl Traugott Riedel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.