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Bériot

Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870) was a Belgian violinist and composer, one of the principal founders of the Franco-Belgian violin school, trained in part by Viotti and celebrated as one of the leading performers of his generation. His life away from the concert platform was marked by his relationship with the soprano Maria Malibran, one of the most celebrated singers of the day; they lived together for several years and married in 1836, only for Malibran to die that same year following a riding accident, aged twenty-eight. From 1843 he was professor of violin at the Brussels Conservatoire, where his students included Henri Vieuxtemps and Henryk Wieniawski; his ten violin concertos and pedagogical writings remain in regular use.

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