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Rodolphe Kreutzer

1766 - 1831

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Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 (1803), known as the Kreutzer Sonata, though he never played the work. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rodolphe Kreutzer is the 355th most popular composer (down from 281st in 2019), the 1,526th most popular biography from France (down from 1,304th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Composer.

Rodolphe Kreutzer was a French violinist and composer. He is most famous for his solo violin work "La Campanella."

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Among composers, Rodolphe Kreutzer ranks 355 out of 1,451. Before him are Michel Richard Delalande, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugo Alfvén, Mieczysław Weinberg, Samuel Scheidt, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. After him are Willem Mengelberg, Hans Richter, Anatoly Lyadov, Hans Werner Henze, Bernardo Pasquini, and Leonardo Leo.

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Among people born in 1766, Rodolphe Kreutzer ranks 14. Before him are Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, William Hyde Wollaston, Johanna Schopenhauer, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, and Maine de Biran. After him are Dominique Jean Larrey, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, John Farey Sr., Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, François-Xavier Fabre, and Slimane of Morocco. Among people deceased in 1831, Rodolphe Kreutzer ranks 21. Before him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Maria Szymanowska, Ignaz Pleyel, and Vicente Guerrero. After him are Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Henri Grégoire, Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, and Princess Louise of Denmark.

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In France

Among people born in France, Rodolphe Kreutzer ranks 1,526 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Murger (1822), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875), Jacques Balmat (1762), Emma Watson (1990), and Yolanda of Courtenay (1197). After him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Marie de Rohan (1600), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), François Louis, Prince of Conti (1664), Aegidius (450), and Victor, Prince Napoléon (1862).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Rodolphe Kreutzer ranks 55. Before him are Gustave Charpentier (1860), Georges Auric (1899), André Campra (1660), Clément Janequin (1485), Germaine Tailleferre (1892), and Michel Richard Delalande (1657). After him are Louis Marchand (1669), Antoine Busnois (1430), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676), Louis Durey (1888), and André Jolivet (1905).

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