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Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1XXXVI.—JACQUES PIERRE JOSEPH RODE.
3RODE, like Viotti, Kreutzer and Spohr, is rightly enough to be numbered among the great classicists of violin playing. He was Viotti's most highly gifted and, in a sense, his best pupil, of whose style and method he was one of the chief exponents. For a long series of years his success was very great, and a number of his compositions are of permanent value. It speaks volumes for his ability as a soloist that Beethoven, who heard him play in Vienna, wrote the famous violin romance in F, op. 50, for him. (It is worthy of note that neither the original manuscript nor Nottebohm's Thematic Catalogue mentions Rode's name in connection with this romance).
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