Ysaye: Solo Violin Sonatas, Op. 27

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Release Date: 12 January 2003

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: YSAYE

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Eug?¿ne Ysa??e (1858-1931)Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27The Belgian violinist Eug?¿ne-Auguste Ysa??e was among theleading virtuosi of his day, inspiring admiration rather than jealous rivalryfrom other great contemporary performers. Born in Li?¿ge in 1858, he was taughtby his father, Nicolas-Joseph Isaye, a violinist and opera conductor, andentered the Li?¿ge Conservatoire in 1865, studying there with D. Heynberg. Atthe death of his mother in 1868 and after disagreement with his teacher, heleft, accompanying his father on concert tours and playing in the orchestrasthe latter conducted. In 1872 he returned to Li?¿ge to study with Rodolphe andLeon Massart, completing his training there with distinction in 1874. Hecontinued his studies with Wienawski in Brussels and later, from 1876 to 1879,with Vieuxtemps in Paris.After leaving Paris, Ysa??e took a position as leader of theBilse orchestra in Berlin, where he continued until 1882. The period broughtconcert tours through Scandinavia and Russia with Anton Rubinstein, acollaboration that he found helped his own musical development. In 1883 hereturned to Paris, associating there with leading composers, including CesarFranck and Camille Saint-Sa?½ns, and, from the younger generation, ErnestChausson, Gabriel Faure, Vincent d'Indy and Claude Debussy, exercising animportant influence on French violin music of the time. Franck's Violin Sonatawas dedicated to him as a wedding present, and Ysa??e gave the firstperformances in Brussels in 1886, and then in Paris. Other dedications includedChausson's Po?¿me and Violin Concerto and Debussy's String Quartet.In 1886 Ysa??e returned to Brussels as a professor at theRoyal Conservatoire, holding the position there until 1898. In addition to hiscontinuing international career as a performer, he conducted concerts at home,giving exposure in particular to new works by French and Belgian composers. In1888 he established the Ysa??e Quartet, with the violinist Mathieu Crickboom,Leon Van Hout and Joseph Jacob, and started the Concerts Ysa??e, which, with abreak during the 1914-18 war, when he was in England and then America,continued until 1940. By 1922 he was in Brussels again, but directed hisattention more particularly to conducting, after trouble with his bowing arm.He had suffered for some time from diabetes and in 1929 his right foot wasamputated. This did not prevent him from conducting his last concert inBrussels in 1930 and in March the following year his opera Pi?¿re li hou?»eu(Peter the Miner) was staged in Li?¿ge and then in Brussels. His health allowedhim to attend the second of these, three weeks before his death on 12th May1931.Ysa??e had considerable influence on the development ofviolin-playing after Wienawski and Vieuxtemps, and there are many reminiscencesof his playing and teaching. Yehudi Menuhin recalls a visit to Brussels to seeYsa??e, the mentor of his own teacher, Louis Persinger, when he was, quiterightly, told to practise scales and arpeggios, adv
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