Charles-Auguste de Bériot

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Charles-Auguste de Bériot, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1839

Charles-Auguste de Bériot (born February 20, 1802 in Leuven , † April 8, 1870 in Brussels ) was a Belgian violinist , violin teacher and composer .

Life

Charles-Auguste de Bériot completed his studies from 1812 with Jean-François Tiby and André Robrechte , both students of Giovanni Battista Viotti . In Paris he worked with Pierre Baillot for a few months . However, his most important role model was Niccolò Paganini . Bériot was a chamber violinist for King Charles X of France and King Wilhelm I of the Netherlands, to which today's Belgium belonged between 1815 and 1829. He gave concerts in all known music centers - London, Manchester, Paris and Brussels.

Since 1833, Bériot lived with the soprano Maria Malibran , whom he married in 1836. Their son Charles-Wilfrid Bériot (1833–1914) became a composer and pianist. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy dedicated an aria with violin accompaniment to the couple. A few months after the marriage, Malibran was so seriously injured in a riding accident that she died of the consequences five months later. Bériot retired in Brussels after Malibran's death and rarely appeared in public. In 1840 he married Marie Huber on a tour of Germany. He bought a house near Brussels and settled down.

After the death of Pierre Baillot in 1842, he was offered a professorship at the Paris Conservatory . However, he did not accept this because he had been advised to lead a violin class at the Brussels Conservatory . He actually got this position in 1843; there he founded the "Franco-Belgian" violin school.

From 1852 his eyesight decreased steadily and in 1858 he went completely blind, but continued his concert activities regardless. Paralysis of the left arm finally ended his career in 1866.

His most famous companion, student and friend was Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881). Like him, Bériot was a Freemason and a member of the Amis Philanthropes Lodge in Brussels, of which he was accepted as an honorary member on April 25, 1836.

His son Charles-Wilfred de Bériot became a well-known pianist who taught, among others, Enrique Granados , Maurice Ravel and Ricardo Viñes .

Works (selection)

Bériot wrote mainly violin music, including

  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 16, 1830 dedicated to the newly appointed Belgian King Leopold I (published in print in 1837)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor op.32 (1841)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 in E major, op.44 (1843)
  • Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 46 (1844)
  • Violin Concerto No. 5 in D major op.55 (1846)
  • Violin Concerto No. 6 in A major, Op. 70 (1850)
  • Violin Concerto No. 7 in G major, op.76 (1851)
  • Violin Concerto No. 8 in D major op.99 (1856)
  • Violin Concerto No. 9 in A minor, Op. 104 (1859)
  • Violin Concerto No. 10 in A minor, Op. 127 (1870)
  • several airs variés for violin and orchestra,
  • 15 variations for violin and piano
  • Scène de Ballet Op. 100
  • Fantasy on Rossini's Wilhelm Tell for violin and piano
  • Dui Concertants op. 57
  • Piano quartet in A minor, Op. 50
  • He also wrote a three-part violin school. Le Premier guide des violonistes and Méthode de violon (published in Paris, 1858).

Works by Beriot are available on 4 CDs (as of 2011): three CDs with his violin concertos (No. 2, 4 and 7; No. 1, 8 and 9 as well as No. 2, 3 and 5) and one with piano trios (piano trio No. . 1; Grand Trio op.64; Trio op.4 + Nocturne).

Web links

Commons : Charles de Bériot  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles de Bériot ( memento of June 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) on musicmac
  2. ^ Archive of the Amis Philanthropes , Book No. 2, matriculation number 876
  3. ↑ Bériot on jpc.de


personal data
SURNAME Bériot, Charles-Auguste de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bériot, Charles Auguste de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Lions
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1870
Place of death Brussels