Émile Sauret

Émile Sauret ( May 22nd 1852 in Dun -le- Roi, France, † February 12, 1920 in London, England) was a French violinist, music teacher and composer of the Romantic period.

Life

Émile Sauret studied from the age of six at the Strasbourg Conservatory. In Paris he was a pupil of Charles de Bériot and Henri Vieuxtemps. Already from the age of eight he toured as a virtuoso violinist France, Italy, Austria, England and Germany. From 1870, he studied composition at the Leipzig Conservatory with Salomon Jadassohn and made ​​many friends, including with Fritz Steinbach and with Richard Sahla and then toured northern Europe. In 1872 he undertook his first concert tour in the United States of America.

From 1873 to 1875 he was married to the Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño. He taught for several years in Berlin at the New Academy of Music Theodor Kullak. In 1890 he was appointed to succeed his deceased compatriot Prosper Sainton to the Royal Academy of Music in London. From 1903 to 1906 he was a lecturer at the " Chicago Musical College ", then in Geneva, until he finally moved to London. His students included, inter alia, Tor Aulin Jan Hambourg, William Henry Reed, Marjorie Hayward, Florizel von Reuter and John Waterhouse.

Émile Sauret played a violin by Guarnerius del Gesu from 1744, which has since been known as the " Sauret " bears and since 1986 performed by violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Assessment

Emile Sauret was a gifted violinist and wrote next two violin concertos, a Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, a ballad, a scherzo, a Barcarolle and more than 100 other works for his instrument. Why he quickly fell after his death in 1920, forgotten, and since then remained in use only as a composer of the famous cadenza to Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1, is puzzling because of the high quality of his music. One of the reasons might be the excessive difficulties he aufbürdete the player of his works. Since the beginning of the 21st century, several of his compositions have accepted violinist again.

Works (selection)

  • Op.3 Caprice de Concert
  • Morceaux de salon Op.6 3 for Violin and Piano
  • Scherzo fantastique Op.9
  • Op.11 Souvenir de Los Angeles
  • Impromptus Op.13 2 for Violin and Piano
  • 20 Grandes Etudes Op.24 (1884 )
  • Op.26 Violin Concerto in G minor
  • Op.27 Fantaisie sur brilliant airs of espagnols
  • Op.28 Feuillet d' album
  • Op.32 Rhapsody russe
  • Op.33 Danse polonais
  • Op.36 Gradus ad Parnassum (1894 )
  • 12 Études Op.38 artistiques
  • Op.43 6 Morceaux de salon
  • Op.50 Scènes Villageoises
  • Capriccio in B minor Op.52
  • Op.57 Introduction et Valse de Concert (1898 )
  • Op.59 Rhapsody suédoise
  • Op.64 24 Etudes Caprices ( 1902-03 )
  • Op.65 Souvenir de Hongrie. Andante et Caprice hongrois
  • Op.66 3 Morceaux de salon
  • Op.67 Andante et Caprice de Concert
  • Op.68 Suite for solo violin (1907 )
  • Op.69 Chanson sans paroles et Mazurka
  • Sonata in A Major by Cesar Franck for violin and piano ( arr.É. Sauret ) ISMN M -001- 03262-9
  • Cadenza to Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op.6, by Nicolò Paganini
  • Cadenza to 4 Violin Concerto in D major, K. 218 by Mozart
  • Cadence to the Devil's Trill Sonata by Tartini
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