Pierre Rode

Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode (* February 16 1774 in Bordeaux, † November 25, 1830 at Château de Bourbon at Damazan, Lot- et- Garonne) was a French violinist.

Life

First violin lessons received Rode in 1780 with André -Joseph Fauvel. Even as a 12 - year-old he was the first concerts in his home town. In 1787 he traveled to Paris and became a master pupil of the famous Giovanni Battista Viotti, with its 13 Violin Concerto he made his debut in Paris in 1790.

His successes with other violin concertos of Viotti were so great that he became a professor in 1795 at the newly founded Paris Conservatoire. With the violinist Pierre Baillot and Rodolphe Kreutzer, he developed the published in 1802 official Violin Method of the Conservatoire.

Extensive tours have taken him through the Netherlands, Germany, England and Spain. In Madrid, he made ​​friends with Luigi Boccherini.

From 1800 to 1803 worked as a violin soloist Rode in the private chapel of Napoleon. At Rodes admirers was the young Louis Spohr, who took over Rodes style after he had heard him in 1803 in Braunschweig.

From 1804 to 1808 Rode lingered as a clerk at the court of Tsar Alexander I in St. Petersburg and performed in Moscow. When Rode 1811 resided in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote for him his last violin sonata ( op.96 No.10 ). Between 1814 and 1819 lived Rode in Berlin.

Rode wrote chamber music, but the basis of his compositions remained Viotti's concertos, which he used as a model for his own. His works were rarely performed, but had great influence on the development of the romantic violin concerto. He had 1828 in Paris his last, ending in a fiasco appearance. Here, already recorded from the signs of paralysis, where he died in 1830.

Rodes -known student was Joseph Böhm, who in turn passed his knowledge on to Joseph Joachim, Jakob Dont, Georg Hellmesberger and others.

Works

  • 24 Capricios for Solo Violin ( originated in the Berlin time)
  • 13 Violin Concertos
  • Douze Etudes pour Violon (12 etudes for violin), posthumous oeuvre, published as No. 1994 of the 'Collection Litolff '
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