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Vieuxtemps

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[vyœ-tahn] / vyœˈtɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Henri François Joseph 1820–81, Belgian violinist and composer.


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On Saturday the violist Jeanne Mallow and the pianist Vladimir Valjarevic delve into Brahms’s “Sonatensatz” and the luscious Sonata in B flat by Vieuxtemps.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2016

The final big piece Mrs. Berkovich taught me was “Violin Concerto No. 4” from the 19th-century Belgian virtuoso Henri Vieuxtemps.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2015

By sharing his past, he tied history to my life—including his musical history with Ysaÿe, who, coincidentally, had himself been a student of Vieuxtemps.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2015

The Mainly Mozart Series packages pieces by its namesake composer with works by Haydn and Vieuxtemps.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2011

On the 2d of March she played a Fantasie sur Lucrezia Borgia by Stanton, the Souvenir des Pyrenees by Alard, a Duet from William Tell, for violin and piano and repeated the Vieuxtemps Fantasie caprice.

From Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Barnard, Charles