Rodolphe Kreutzer
#104,480
Most Influential Person Across History
French violinist, conductor, composer
Rodolphe Kreutzer's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Communications
Why Is Rodolphe Kreutzer Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rodolphe Kreutzer was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel . He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 , 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 . 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.
