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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), known as the Kreutzer Sonata, though he never played the work. Kreutzer made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when at Vienna in the…

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Type
Person
Area
France
Born
November 15th, 1766
Died
January 6th, 1831
Labels
Naxos
Classic Produktion Osnabrück
Palazzetto Bru Zane
Sonarti
Last updated: March 7th, 2021

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