A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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compositions are seven concertos, sonatas, airs with variations, and many studies for his instrument. • Berthaume, Isidore, born at Paris, 1752, died at St. Petersburg, 1802. In 1774 he was leader at the Grand Opera at Paris, and in 1783 he was appointed conductor of the " Concerts Spirituels. ' Soon afterwards he commenced travelling and giving concerts. His next appointment was that of leader of the ducal band at Eutin in 1793, and subsequently he became solo violinist in the private band at St. Petersburg. His compositions are sonatas, and a violin concerto. Amongst the pupils of Berthaume was Grasset, who ultimately became violin professor in the Paris Conservatoire.
' Berwald, Johann Friedrich, born at Stockholm, 1788, died there 1861. When between four and five years of age, he played at a public concert on a small violin. After that time he visited, with his father, various Courts of Europe, whence he received medals and many other marks of royal approbation ; at the same time he prosecuted his studies in composition and on the pianoforte. Several of his instrumental works have been published in Germany.
• Besekirsky, Wasil Wasilewitch, born at Moscow, 1836, where as a young man he was a member of the theatre
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