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Vieuxtemps

Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881) was a Belgian violinist and composer who studied under Charles de Bériot and became one of the outstanding string players of the nineteenth century. At twelve he performed for Beethoven in Vienna, an encounter that reportedly moved the composer deeply. He taught at the St Petersburg Conservatory and later at the Brussels Conservatoire, where one of his students was the young Eugène Ysaÿe. His five violin concertos, particularly the fourth and fifth, remain in the repertoire today. He died in Mustapha, Algeria, where he had gone hoping to recover from a stroke that had left him partly paralysed.

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