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1other organizations throughout Europe. Now occupies the position of violin teacher at the Dresden Conservatory.
3RAPPOLDI, EDOUARD, Austrian violinist and composer, b. Vienna, Feb. 21, 1839. Studied under Jansa, Hellmsberger and Böhm, concertizing and occupying various positions as teacher and concertmaster; finally became Joachim's colleague at the Berlin Hochschule and member of the Joachim Quartet. From 1877 until 1898 he became professor of violin at the Dresden Conservatory and concertmaster with Lauterbach at the Dresden Opera. Compositions include two violin sonatas. D. Dresden, May 16, 1903.
5RASOUOMOUSKY, COUNT ANDREAS, Russian amateur violinist, b. Lemeschi, Oct. 22, 1752, and was Russian ambassador at Vienna for more than twenty years. He formed a string quartet in 1808, with Schuppanzigh as the first violinist and he himself as second violin. Beethoven's Quartets Op. 59 are dedicated to him.
7REBEL, JEAN FERRY, French violinist and composer, b. Paris about 1661. Became a violinist at the Paris Opera and one of the King's "Twenty-four Violins." Compositions include sonatas for violin with double-bass accompaniment. D. Paris in 1747.
9REBNER, ADOLF, Austrian violinist, b. Vienna, Nov. 21, 1876. Studied under Grün and Marsick, afterwards succeeding Hugo Heerman as professor of violin at the Frankfort Conservatory, where he founded a quartet with which he toured Germany, France, England and Spain with great success.
11REHFELD, FABIAN, German violinist and composer, b. Tuchel, Jan. 23, 1842. Studied under Zimmerman and Grünwald at Berlin. Was appointed royal chamber musician in 1868; was concertmaster of the royal court in 1873 and afterwards devoted himself to private teaching and composing. Compositions include a number of pleasing violin pieces and transcriptions. D. Berlin, Nov. 1920.
13REMÉNYI, EDOUARD, Hungarian violinist, b. Heves, 1830. Studied under Böhm at the Vienna Conservatory, and toured the world practically all his life, visiting America first in 1848; England in 1854, where he was appointed solo violinist to Queen Victoria, and returning to Austria in 1860 where he became solo violinist to the Emperor. He soon resumed his touring of the world and continued concertizing in Europe, the Far East and America, dying while on the concert platform at San Francisco, May 15, 1898. As a performer on the violin he had a marvelous technique and a tone at once passionate and full of pathos. During one of his tours of Germany, Reményi had Johannes Brahms as an accompanist. Compositions include a violin concerto and some solos which have little importance.
15REUCHSEL, MAURICE, French violinist, Lyons, Nov. 22, 1880. Studied under his father and at the Paris Conservatory and toured Europe as violin and viola d'amore virtuoso. Became editor of the Express Musical de Lyon in 1903, also writing a number of interesting essays on matters appertaining to the violin. Compositions include a sonata, concert pieces and suites for violin.
17REUTER, FLORIZEL VON, American violinist, child prodigy and composer, b. Daveport, Ia., Jan. 21, 1893. Studied under Bendix, Sauret, Thomson and Marteau and made numerous successful tours of Europe and America and during the World War became director of the Music Academy of Zurich, Switzerland. Compositions include Roumanian Dances and other solos for violin, also an instructive work on the Caprices of Paganini.
19REY, LOUIS THEOPHILE, French violinist, b. Strasbourg, Feb. 27, 1852. An excellent violinist, who for thirty years was solo violin of the Geneva Theatre Orchestra, besides playing with the Monte Carlo and Lamoureux Orchestras, and teaching the violin.
21REYNOLDS, EDIE, Hungarian violinist, Budapest. She was brought to England when a child and began violin study at eight years of age, later entering the Royal Academy of Music under Sauret. Miss Reynolds once had the privilege, at a luncheon given by Sauret, of playing a Bruch and a Tschaikowsky concerto with the composers themselves as her accompanists, both of them being Sauret's guests.
23RIES, FRANZ, German violinist and composer, b. Berlin, Apr. 7, 1846. Studied under Massart and Vieuxtemps, taking first prize at the Paris Conservatory and becoming violist in the Vieuxtemps Quartet in London at the Crystal Palace, but in 1883 relinquished the career of virtuoso on account of a nervous affection of the left hand, and entered the music publishing
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