Scan 32
Celebrated violinists, past and present; ("The Strad" library), 1897
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1IX.—RUDOLPH (OR RUDOLF) KREUTZER.
3FROM the famous Italian school founded by Tartini and Pugnani, and materially assisted by Viotti, Rudolf Kreutzer obtained the best part of his artistic method, so far as concerns his style of bowing, his splendid tone, and the clearness of his execution. In France, Kreutzer, Baillot and Rode, in Germany, Spohr, all helped on this splendid style to victory. In the same way that Viotti was called the greatest violinist of the last century, so may Kreutzer be described as the great "tone producer" of his time.
5Kreutzer was born on the 16th November, 1766, at Versailles, where his father, a German violinist, was a member of the royal band. The beginning of his
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